COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500356
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/1/155
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Parent Work Title:
Grundy's Cottage
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
[date not identified]
Page/Sheet:
155
Image Sequence Number:
168
Image Sequence Total:
185
Description:
View of Mr Grundy's Cottage in Shell Cove suburb in the Shellharbour area, south of Wollongong, New South Wales. An identified female is seen standing on the porch, with an unidentified male sitting in a chair by the wall. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'Mr Grundy's Cottage, Shell Cove, near Sydney'. Grundy was a civil engineer from Manchester, not connected with the Mint, but already established in Sydney when Jevons arrived. Jevons had a reference of introduction to him from his father, a Unitarian connection.
Subject:
Photograph albums--1850-1860
Subject:
Photographic prints--1850-1860
Subject:
Landscape photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
Subject:
Outdoor photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
Subject:
Gardens
Subject:
Dwellings
Subject:
Rocks
Subject:
Plants
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
People Covered:
Grundy, Francis Henry, 1822-1889
People Covered:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
People Covered:
Miller, Francis Bowyer, 1828-1887
Item Height:
132 mm
Item Width:
170 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 two other prints: /156 and 157. 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 155 also appears in album JA/33/1/2 as print 102.
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
