Lamphouse lens.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1910
Materials
Glass, Metal
Measurements
57 mm (Depth); 115 mm (Diameter)
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525297.3
Summary
Lamphouse lens.
Full description
A lens for a lamphouse (1525297.1) It is surrounded by a black metal holder, that allows it to sit the the lamphouse lens holder. Associated with it is a circular black metal perforated grid.
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