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3621. Talbot Photo 24(1467)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 24(1467)
Title:
[Michael Faraday with four test patches.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Studio portrait of the chemist, seated next to a table and turned slightly to the left, underneath the main image is a row of for rectangular test patches. Photoglyphic engraving. Image size 90 x 77 mm, paper size 120 x 104 mm. Originally kept in a sheet of paper tha...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

3622. V3153(frontis)

Reference (shelfmark):
V3153(frontis)
Title:
Photograph of the author and his Baluch servant. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated studio portrait of the traveller Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer, his servant standing to one side holding a tray with tea service. Ernest Ayscoght Floyer (1852-1903) entered the Indian Telegraph Service at the age of seventeen and for several years was sta...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

3623. WD2968(27a)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2968(27a)
Title:
[Horse and syce, Bangalore.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of an Indian groom holding a horse, presumably the mount of George Francis Vesey and presumably photographed at Bangalore during his posting there.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1883
Extent:
1 item

3624. WD2968(27b)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2968(27b)
Title:
The Boys, Bangalore. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Indian servants, posed in front of Vesey's bungalow at Bungalow at Bangalore.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1883
Extent:
1 item

3625. WD2968(28b)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2968(28b)
Title:
Black pony. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a pony, held at the bridle by an Indian syce. Probably photographed at Bangalore.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1883
Extent:
1 item

3626. Wq4/6069(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(3)
Title:
Covent Garden labourers. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a group of labourers in the market at Covent Garden, posed with the wicker baskets using for carrying produce: 'the accompanying photograph represents a group of labourers who are in the service of Mr. Dickson, the well-known florist. Thei...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

3627. Wq4/6069(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(4)
Title:
Halfpenny ices. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of an Italian ice cream seller, with customers crowded round his barrow: 'Italian ice-men constitute a distinct feature of London life, which, however, is generally ignored by the public at large, so far as its intimate details are concerned....
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

3628. Wq4/6069(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(5)
Title:
Black Jack. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a man seated on a donkey cart: 'John Walker, commonly known as 'Black Jack,' or 'Darkie,' is one of the army of licensed hawkers who supply the daily wants of the Metropolitan poor...' Smith's text, much of it reproduced as Walker's verbat...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

3629. Wq4/6069(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(6)
Title:
Cheap fish of St. Giles's. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View of a fisher-seller and his stall, with customers crowded round: 'It has often been remarked that but for our cheap fish supply the poor of London would undoubtedly be reduced to the most acute stages of starvation. Notwithstanding, therefore, the...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

3630. Wq4/6069(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(7)
Title:
Cast-iron Billy. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two men, posed at the rear of a horse-drawn omnibus. The figure on the left is, 'William Parragreen, known as 'Cast-iron Billy',' a driver since 1834 and now at the end of his employment with the London General Omnibus Company.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

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