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Photographic Religious Slide of Christ Blessing Little Children by Newton & Co, London, English, c. 1880

Inventory Number 39264


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.39264

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Eric Gordon
Primary inscriptions
Triangular printed label: 'MAKERS/NEWTON & Co./3, FLEET ST. LONDON.'; second triangular printed label: 'COPIED/BY/PERMISSION/OF THE/BERLIN PHOTOGRAPHIC Co.'
Physical material
Wood
Glass
Paint
Dimensions
Height: 11mm Width: 180mm Depth: 103mm Weight: 98g
Inventory No
39264
Accession Number
1979-2

Description

One of a Group of sixteen slides of Old and New Testament Subjects, of which two are by Newton & Co., copyright of Berlin. In chest. Photographic Co.

The image is of Christ blessing the children that surround him.