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Subject Manners and Customs Level [40] File

41. 1787.d.7, 4(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 4(20)
Title:
Manchu female coiffure. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Half-length seated portrait of a Chinese woman. Captions for prints 19 and 20 have been inadvertently transposed.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

42. 1787.d.7, 4(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 4(26)
Title:
A Pekingese chiropodist. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Street scene, with a chiropodist attending to his customer's feet, with an onlooker leaning over the half-door behind.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

43. 1787.d.7, 4(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 4(35)
Title:
Manchu toilet. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length seated studio portrait, against a plain backdrop, of a Manchu woman, attended by her maid, who is arranging her hair, and with a young child standing on the left.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872
Extent:
1 item

44. 1899.ccc.18, 2(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
1899.ccc.18, 2(17)
Title:
France. Vue prise au Bas-Meudon. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography A rural scene, showing a shepherd and his flock beside a small, tree-lined lake. Accompanying text signed, 'Challamel.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 item

45. 1899.ccc.18, 2(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
1899.ccc.18, 2(18)
Title:
France. Vue de Normandie. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across fields towards a house set at the edge of woodland. Accompanying text signed, 'Challamel.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 item

46. 7701.h.1(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
7701.h.1(18)
Title:
Panier en jonc, renfermant des gigots de mouton et de gazelle; des oies, une tête de veau, préparées et pour la plupart enveloppées de bandelettes...Le repas funèbre de la princesse Isimkheb. Photographer: Brugsch, Émile Charles Adalbert
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of a rush basket containing wrapped items of meat, to be placed in the tomb for the funeral meal.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1881
Extent:
1 item

47. 7701.h.1(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
7701.h.1(29)
Title:
Canopes de Isimkheb, Nessi-Ta-Neb-Asher, Ahmes-Nofert-Ari. Photographer: Brugsch, Émile Charles Adalbert
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View of three canopic vases, for holding the viscera of the deceased, with stoppers in the form of portrait heads.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1881
Extent:
1 item

48. Add MS 58773(79)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 58773(79)
Title:
Making cakes. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Indian woman preparing bread.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890s
Extent:
1 item

49. C.128.k.10(49)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.128.k.10(49)
Title:
Edinburgh Ale. James Ballantyne, Dr. George Bell and D. O. Hill R.S.A. Photographer: Hill and Adamson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait group of the the three men at drink, James Ballantyne (1808-1877) and George Bell (d. 1889) seated at a table, with David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) standing behind and to the right. [Stevenson (1981), 'Group 27.']
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1843-1847
Extent:
1 item

50. C.141.dd.8(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(1)
Title:
Coming home from the marshes. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a group of reed-cutters walking home along the side of a fen: 'Along the marsh wall comes a group of labourers returning from their short day's work. Typical specimens these of the Norfolk peasant, — wiry in body, pleasant in manner, intelligent in mind.....
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item