COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500427
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/2/54
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album of photographs, '1853-8'
Parent Work Title:
William Stanley Jevons
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
1857-12-04
Page/Sheet:
54
Image Sequence Number:
054
Image Sequence Total:
113
Description:
Three-quarter length portrait of William Stanley Jevons, sitting on a chair, facing front, looking directly into the camera. He is holding a tray of 12 cupels in his left hand, and assay tongs in his right. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'W.S.J. | with tray of 12 cupels and assay tongs (supposed to have just taken them out of the assay furnace)'.
Subject:
Photograph albums--1850-1860
Subject:
Photographic prints--1850-1860
Subject:
Portrait photographs--1850-1860
Subject:
Mints--Australia
Subject:
Employees
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:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Item Height:
88 mm
Item Width:
68 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: /52 and /53. 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 54 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 29.
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
