COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500454
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/2/81
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album of photographs, '1853-8'
Parent Work Title:
View from Neutral Bay
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
1858-02-14
Page/Sheet:
81
Image Sequence Number:
081
Image Sequence Total:
113
Description:
Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour from Severn's house in the heights of Neutral Bay suburb, Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, looking towards Fort Denison, with Elizabeth Bay and Darling Point in the distance. Employed at the Sydney Royal Mint, Henry Severn was a Clerk in the Coining Department. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: ''Neutral bay, North Shore - Harbour, Fort Denison, Pinchgut, Garden Island - from the verandah of Severn's House.'
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:
Bodies of water
Subject:
Harbours
Subject:
Coasts
Subject:
Trees
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:
82 mm
Item Width:
152 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: /82. 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 81 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 50.
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
