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Detail View: Rylands Collection:

Image Number: 
JRL223500467
Reference Number: 
JA/33/1/2/94
Link to Catalogue: 
Series Title: 
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album of photographs, '1853-8'
Parent Work Title: 
Jevons' Garden
Creator: 
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Creator Role: 
Compiler
Date Created: 
[date not identified]
Page/Sheet: 
94
Image Sequence Number: 
094
Image Sequence Total: 
113
Description: 
Plants, including tree ferns, staghorn ferns and rock lilies, arranged with large rocks. A tall wooden fence is lined in the background. In the garden of Jevons' house in Double Bay, eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'Rockery at Double Bay' | 'Tree ferns' | 'Stag horn ferns' | 'Rock Lilies'.
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: 
Rocks
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: 
114 mm
Item Width: 
165 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. 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 94 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 161.
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