Sea battle with 2 burning masted ships.
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 1525218.2.3
Summary
A lithographic coloured glass lantern slide in rectangular format, bound with a red paper border. In top right hand corner of slide is a circle with manufacturer mark 'GebrB' in, and in opposite corner a circle with the number '3.' in. The rectangular landscape image is of a sea battle with 2 masted ships burning. A steam tug is on th right of the slide with a lighthouse on the left.
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.
Makers and roles
Gebrüder Bing , manufacturer