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Detail View: Rylands Collection:

Image Number: 
JRL223500249
Reference Number: 
JA/33/1/1/60
Link to Catalogue: 
Series Title: 
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Parent Work Title: 
William Stanley Jevons
Creator: 
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Creator Role: 
Compiler
Date Created: 
1858-02-06
Page/Sheet: 
60
Image Sequence Number: 
061
Image Sequence Total: 
185
Description: 
Full-length portrait of William Stanley Jevons, sitting in a rocking chair, facing three-quarters to the right, looking directly into the camera to the front. He has his legs crossed and his hands folded together on his knee. Various plants in pots beside him, and trees in the background. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'W.S.J' | '6/2/58'.
Subject: 
Photograph albums--1850-1860
Subject: 
Photographic prints--1850-1860
Subject: 
Portrait photographs--1850-1860
Subject: 
Mints--Australia
Subject: 
Employees
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: 
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Item Height: 
77 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 five other prints: /55, /56, /57, /58, and /59. 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 60 also appears in album JA/33/1/2 as print 1.
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