Changing seasons in the countryside.
Gebrüder Bing
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card board, Glass, Paper
Measurements
79 x 240 x 2 mm
Place of origin
Nuremberg
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525218.2.12
Summary
A lithographic coloured glass lantern slide in rectangular format, bound with a red paper border. There are 4 circular images across the glass, with a painted black mask between them. In top right hand corner of slide is a circle with manufacturer mark 'GebrB' in, and in opposite corner a circle with the number '12.' in. The 4 images are of changes of season in the countryside; The first is Spring, with a blossom tree by a river with a punt on it and a watermill in background, the second is Summer with a man and woman cutting corn and stacking it, the third is Autumn with leaves on trees changing colour and a stag and deer by water and the fourth is Winter with Mother and child in a snowy landscape with church spire in background.
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