The Smithy
Category
Photographs
Date
1920 - 1935
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
83 x 83 x 3 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525672.1.6
Summary
A coloured lithographic glass lantern slide entitled "The Smithy". The image depicts A blacksmith shoeing a horse, with a donkey in the background. Written within the picture, bottom left is "The Smithy". Two sheets of glass, 83 mm x 83 mm, one of which carries the image and the other is a cover glass, bound together with light brown paper tape. Behind the cover glass there is a black paper mask over the image, creating a rectangular aperture with curved corners. Above the image, also behind the glass, are white paper corners diagonally across the top two corners of the slide.
Provenance
Donated to The Fox Talbot Museum by Martin H Boniface