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Photograph

c.1860 (made)
Artist/Maker
Tournier, Henri
Furne, Charles Paul Fils the Younger Junior

Chalres Furne and Henri Tournier. Scene, frogs playing pool and smoking clay pipes, 19thC


Object details

Category
Photographs
Object type
Photograph
Materials and techniques
Stereoscopic photograph
Card
Photography
Brief description
Chalres Furne and Henri Tournier. Scene, frogs playing pool and smoking clay pipes, 19thC
Dimensions
  • Size of card height: 8.6cm
  • Width: 17.2cm
Gallery label
  • Making It Up: Photographic Fictions (2018) Marta Weiss Stereographs were produced in vast quantities and depicted a great range of subjects, from the educational to the absurd. At the humorous end of the spectrum were novelties such as stuffed frogs playing pool, supernatural tableaux and cartoonish domestic scenes.
  • Label for 'Making It Up: Photographic Fictions' (3 May 2013 - 12 January 2014): Probably John Reynolds The Angel's Whisper James Elliott (1835–1903) Mary Queen of Scots. A Prisoner Unknown photographers The Captive Woman selling apples from a basket Probably Martin Laroche (1810–86) Astounding Apparition! Unknown photographer Frogs playing pool and smoking clay pipes About 1860 A stereograph is a pair of photographic images of the same subject taken from slightly different angles. This gives the illusion of a three-dimensional image when viewed through a stereoscope. These optical devices occupied a place in the drawing room, as a television might today, providing entertainment that was both amusing and instructive. Stereographs were the most popular outlet for staged and narrative photography in the 19th century. Stereographs Museum nos. 107, 113, 124, 127, 147-1957, 679-1943
Subjects depicted
Stereoscopes
Stereograph
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
124-1957

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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