COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500192
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/1/4
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Parent Work Title:
Prisoner of Gisors
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
[date not identified]
Page/Sheet:
4
Image Sequence Number:
004
Image Sequence Total:
185
Description:
Artwork known as the 'Prisoner of Gisors', originally painted by Edward Henry Wehnert (1813-1868). A man is sitting at the edge of his bed, with his wrists shackled. Using a nail and a rock, he carves a bas-relief of the crucifixion scene onto the stone wall of his cell, with a fleur-de-lis and the Latin inscription 'O Mater Dei Miserere Mei Pontani'.
Subject:
Photographic prints--1850-1860
Subject:
Photography of art
Subject:
Art
Subject:
Arts, Visual
Category of Material:
Archives
Sub-Category:
Analogue photography
Sub-Category:
Albumen prints
Technique Used:
Albumen process
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Australia: New South Wales
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Places Covered:
Australia: New South Wales
Item Height:
144 mm
Item Width:
108 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
Copyright restrictions may apply
Notes:
• Monochrome photographic print, mounted on paper. Bound in an album with a total of 172 photographs of places in Sydney, and of friends and colleagues at the Sydney Royal Mint, taken or compiled by William Stanley Jevons during the 1850s. Between 1854-1859 Jevons was employed as Assayer at the Sydney Royal Mint and also carried out detailed social surveys of the city's slums. • Print 4 also appears in album JA/33/1/2 as print 84.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2022-08-18
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2022-11
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Rylands
