COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500407
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/2/34
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album of photographs, '1853-8'
Parent Work Title:
Alicia Miller
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
1858-02-08
Page/Sheet:
34
Image Sequence Number:
034
Image Sequence Total:
113
Description:
Full-length portrait of Alicia Miller (wife of Francis Bowyer Miller), sitting on a chair, facing three-quarters to the right, looking away from the camera. With both hands she is holding and reading a large sheet of paper. Various plants beside her, fence, and trees in the background. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'Mrs Miller'
Subject:
Photograph albums--1850-1860
Subject:
Photographic prints--1850-1860
Subject:
Portrait photographs--1850-1860
Subject:
Mints--Australia
Subject:
Employees
Subject:
Friends and associates
Category of Material:
Archives
Sub-Category:
Analogue photography
Sub-Category:
Albumen prints
Sub-Category:
Portraits
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:
Miller, Alicia, 1828-1906
Item Height:
85 mm
Item Width:
60 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 four other prints: /33, /35, 36, and /37. 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 34 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 85.
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
