First part of story of Snow White
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 1525174.5.9
Summary
A lithographic coloured glass lantern slide in rectangular format, bound with a red paper border. There are 4 circular images. numbered 1 to 4 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 start of the story of Snow White, showing her stepmother at the mirror, being taken to the wood and finding the dwarves cottage.
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