COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500362
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/1/161
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Parent Work Title:
Jevons' Garden
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
[date not identified]
Page/Sheet:
161
Image Sequence Number:
174
Image Sequence Total:
185
Description:
Plants, including tree ferns, staghorn ferns and rock lilies, arranged with large rocks. A tall wooden fence is lined in the background. In the garden of Jevons' house in Double Bay, eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'Rockery at Double Bay' | 'Tree ferns' | 'Staghorn ferns' | 'Rock Lilies'.
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:
Bays--Australia
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
Item Height:
114 mm
Item Width:
163 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 one other print: /162. 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 161 also appears in album JA/33/1/2 as print 94.
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
