A small circular lithographic colour slide for Toy Magic Lantern, set in a rectangular wooden frame.
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1905
Materials
Glass, Wood
Measurements
35 x 119 x 10 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525174.4
Summary
A small circular lithographic colour slide for Toy Magic Lantern, set in a rectangular wooden frame. The image is of a boat and iceburgs and the slide is held in a wooden frame inside which is set a clear glass sliding cover with a picture of a boat on it which can slide across the main picture, as though the ship is sailing.
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.