COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500381
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/2/8
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album of photographs, '1853-8'
Parent Work Title:
Double Bay
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
1858-01-31
Page/Sheet:
8
Image Sequence Number:
008
Image Sequence Total:
113
Description:
View of the headland jutting out to sea as seen from Jevons' house in Double Bay, eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. The garden's wooden picket fence is visible in the foreground. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'Rocky Point, view from the Cottage, Double Bay.'
Subject:
Photograph albums--1850-1860
Subject:
Trees
Subject:
Rocks
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:
Bodies of water
Subject:
Coasts
Subject:
Dwellings
Subject:
Gardens
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:
126 mm
Item Width:
173 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. Bound in an album with a total of 113 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 8 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 67.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2022-08-24
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
