COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500203
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/1/15
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Parent Work Title:
Francis Bowyer Miller
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
1857-11-24
Page/Sheet:
15
Image Sequence Number:
015
Image Sequence Total:
185
Description:
Three-quarter length portrait of Francis Bowyer Miller, sitting on a chair, facing to the left, looking away from the camera. With both hands he is holding and reading a sheet of paper, with a pen in his mouth(?). Employed at the Sydney Royal Mint, Miller was an Assayer. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'F.B.M.' | '24/11/57'.
Subject:
Photograph albums--1850-1860
Subject:
Photographic prints--1850-1860
Subject:
Portrait photographs--1850-1860
Subject:
Mints--Australia
Subject:
Employees
Subject:
Friends and associates
Category of Material:
Archives
Sub-Category:
Analogue photography
Sub-Category:
Albumen prints
Sub-Category:
Portraits
Technique Used:
Albumen process
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Australia: New South Wales
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Places Covered:
Australia: New South Wales
People Covered:
Miller, Francis Bowyer, 1828-1887
Item Height:
79 mm
Item Width:
54 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 with six other prints: /16, /17, /18, /19, /20, and /21. 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.
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
