Accession No

3857

Brief Description

mounted photograph showing Mary Rosse and another woman using a stereo viewer, by Dublin Institute of Technology, Irish, 1856 (c) [photograph taken], 1986 (c) [mounted]

Origin

Dublin; Ireland

Maker

Dublin Institute of Technology

Class

ephemera; optical

Earliest Date

1986

Latest Date

1986

Inscription Date

Material

paper (photographic paper, card)

Dimensions

height 179mm; breadth 114mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Donated by J. A. Bennett, Whipple Museum, Cambridge, England.

Inscription

‘Mary Rosse viewing a stereo transparency with her companion
holding a Brewster stereo viewer. Photograph of ca. 1856 from the
Mary Rosse centennial exhibition “Impressions of an Irish
Countess” mounted by the Dublin Institute of Technology,
initially at Birr, and now moving - 1986 - to The National Museum
of Photography, Bradford, The Fox Talbot Museum Lacock, The
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Photokina Cologne, as well as eventually
the United States.’ (inside)

Description Notes

Photograph (copy); part of a Christmas card; shows two Victorian ladies (one of them is Mary Rosse) using a stereo viewer; taken c.1856; card was produced as part of the Mary Rosse centennial exhibition, ‘Impressions of an Irish Countess’.

Condition good; complete.

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