Daylight enlarger by John J Griffin & Sons Ltd.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1890
Materials
Wood, Brass, Leather, Glass
Measurements
310 x 220 x 635 mm (in use)
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525161
Summary
Daylight enlarger by John J Griffin & Sons Ltd. The enlarger consists of three wooden trays/frames held together by hinges, which fold and are held together by clips when not in use. The bottom frame has a removable back into which the photographic paper (full plate size) is placed. Attached to the frame are long red tapered leather bellows, at the front of which is a wooden support holding a condenser lens, in front of which are attached a shorter sets of parallel bellows leading to a second wooden support holding the frame into which the negative holder is placed. The second and third wooden frames fold out when in use to form a bottom board, to which the wooden supports on the extended bellows are secured using screw-threaded knobs on the frames. Markings; on a plate attached to the wooden baseboard; "Griffin's Folding Enlarger. Patent applied for No. 19874. John J. Griffin & Sons Ltd. 20-26, Sardinia Street, London."
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986