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Detail View: Rylands Collection:

Image Number: 
JRL223500212
Reference Number: 
JA/33/1/1/24
Link to Catalogue: 
Series Title: 
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Parent Work Title: 
Robert Hunt
Creator: 
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Creator Role: 
Compiler
Date Created: 
1857-11-26
Page/Sheet: 
24
Image Sequence Number: 
024
Image Sequence Total: 
185
Description: 
Half-length portrait of Robert Hunt, sitting on a chair, facing three-quarters to the right, looking away from the camera. Employed at the Sydney Royal Mint, Hunt was a Chief Clerk of the Bullion Office. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'R.H.' | '26/11/57'.
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: 
Hunt, Robert, 1830-1892
Item Height: 
89 mm
Item Width: 
65 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 three other prints: /23, /24, and /25. 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 24 also appears in album JA/33/1/2 as print 49.
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