COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500319
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/1/121
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Parent Work Title:
Miniature Cloud
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
[date not identified]
Page/Sheet:
121
Image Sequence Number:
131
Image Sequence Total:
185
Description:
Miniature cloud produced in a laboratory cloud chamber. In the 1850s, Jevons built an apparatus at the Sydney Royal Mint to undertake experiments in cloud formation by producing manifestations of the 'average' cirrus cloud in his apparatus. Photography served to record these experiments. In 1858, he published the first thorough and scientific study of the climate of Australia, entitled 'On Clouds: their various forms and producing causes'. Sydney Magazine of Science and Art, 1, pp. 163-76.
Subject:
Photograph albums--1850-1860
Subject:
Photographic prints--1850-1860
Subject:
Science--Experiments
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:
60 mm
Item Width:
82 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 eight other prints: /120, /122, /123, /124, /125, /126, /127, and /128. 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
