A stereoview presenting a staged genre tableau, showing a fireman rescuing a lady from a burning houset. Extensive hand-applied color washes in pink, pale blue and red cover much of the upper composition and appear intended to simulate drapery, smoke or spattered blood, though the heavy and uneven application obscures much of the underlying photographic detail. The composition suggests a theatrical or melodramatic re-enactment of a violent scene, a genre common to contrived narrative stereoviews of the period.
Photographer/publisher: Unknown
Period/date: circa 1860/5
Dimensions: 175 x 85 mm
Condition: /good; the mount shows overall toning, corner and edge wear, and a vertical crease at left. The image surface is heavily obscured by later hand-applied color washes in pink, blue and red, with uneven pigment saturation and some pigment bleed. Surface soiling and light foxing are present on the mount margins.
Reverse: No verso scan available.
Keywords: genre, stereoview, hand-colored, staged tableau, vernacular
Photographer Biography:
No verified biographical information available.
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