Men hunting in the Arctic.
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 1525218.2.5
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 '5.' in. The 4 images are of hunters in the Arctic; in the first image three men are in canoes harpooning walruses; in the second two men are moving a sledge with dogs in foreground; in the third a polar bear is attacking one of the men; in the fourth a man with canoe approaches man with sledge.
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