COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500460
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/2/87
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album of photographs, '1853-8'
Parent Work Title:
Trees in Severn's Garden
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
1858-02-14
Page/Sheet:
87
Image Sequence Number:
087
Image Sequence Total:
113
Description:
Norfolk Island pine, Nerium oleander, and other trees in the background. In the garden of Severn's house in Neutral Bay suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 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: 'Norfolk Pine, Oleander Tree etc', and '14th February | 1838'
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:
Gardens
Subject:
Dwellings
Subject:
Trees
Subject:
Plants
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:
94 mm
Item Width:
61 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: /85 and /86, and /101. 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 87 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 52.
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
