Last part of story of Tom Thumb
Gebrüder Bing
Category
Photographs
Date
1913 - 1920
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
150 x 40 x 1 mm
Place of origin
Nuremberg
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525174.5.4
Summary
A lithographic coloured glass lantern slide in rectangular format, bound with a red paper border. There are 4 circular images. numbered 5 to 8 in small circles at the top left of each image, across the glass, with a painted black mask between them. The 4 images are of the end of the story of Tom thumb, showing tom thumb leaving home.
Provenance
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
Makers and roles
Gebrüder Bing , manufacturer