COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500255
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/1/64a
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Parent Work Title:
View of Sydney Harbour
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
[date not identified]
Page/Sheet:
64a [recto]
Image Sequence Number:
067
Image Sequence Total:
185
Description:
Panoramic view of Sydney from the North Shore looking over Fort Macquarie at Bennelong Point. Showing left to right: Woolloomooloo, Farm Cove, Fort Macquarie, with Government House behind Fort Macquarie, and Macquarie Street towards the right. A ship and small boats can be seen in the harbour.
Subject:
Photograph albums--1850-1860
Subject:
Trees
Subject:
Photographic prints--1850-1860
Subject:
Landscape photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
Subject:
Cityscape photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
Subject:
Bays--Australia
Subject:
Bodies of water
Subject:
Harbours
Subject:
Coasts
Subject:
Ships
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:
83 mm
Item Width:
187 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. 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
Collection Code:
Rylands
