Detail View: Rylands Collection:

Image Number: 
JRL223500421
Reference Number: 
JA/33/1/2/48
Link to Catalogue: 
Series Title: 
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album of photographs, '1853-8'
Parent Work Title: 
Henry Augustus Severn
Creator: 
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Creator Role: 
Compiler
Date Created: 
1857-12-04
Page/Sheet: 
48
Image Sequence Number: 
048
Image Sequence Total: 
113
Description: 
Half-length portrait of Henry Augustus Severn, sitting on a chair, facing three-quarters to the left, looking away from the camera. His arms are folded across his chest. Employed at the Sydney Royal Mint, Severn was a Clerk in the Coining Department. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'H.A. Severn of S.R.M'
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: 
Severn, Henry Augustus, 1833-1883
Item Height: 
87 mm
Item Width: 
62 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 three other prints: /47, /49, and /50. 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 48 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 18.
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