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Photo 1246/1(3)
- Record Id:
- 041-003188841
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003188837
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026599955.0x001413
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1246/1(3)
- Title:
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'Fall of Sebastopol.' Basset Down, 1855. Photographer(s): Story-Maskelyne, Nevil (1823-1911)
- Scope & Content:
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Family group posed om the terrace in front of Basset Down House. Other versions of this print supply a fuller title: 'Anthony Story-Maskelyne reading to his family from The Times the news of the fall of Sebastopol 1855.' From left to right: Anthony Story-Maskelyne, Antonia, Margaret, Agnes, Peggy Tait, Charlotte and Edmund.
Salted paper print; from a glass collodion negative (original negative held in collection); loss of highlight detail; fading and yellowing from edges.
Inscription in pencil beneath print: 'Fall of Sebastopol.' Basset Down, 1855', 'N.S.M.'.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003188837
040-003188838
041-003188841 - Is part of:
- Photo 1246 : Story-Maskelyne, John Dillwyn Llewelyn Archive: Photographs, watercolours and drawings from the Maskelyne and Llewelyn families
Photo 1246/1 : Story-Maskelyne, Dillwyn Llewelyn Archive: [Family portraits and topographical album containing 70 prints, mostly taken by…
Photo 1246/1(3) : 'Fall of Sebastopol.' Basset Down, 1855. Photographer(s): Story-Maskelyne, Nevil (1823-1911) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003188837[0001]/040-003188838[0003]/041-003188841
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1246
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Photograph
Photographic Print
Salted Paper Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1855
- End Date:
- 1855
- Date Range:
- 1855
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: Salted Paper Print
Dimensions: 145 mm x 109 mm
Format: Photograph Album
Secondary Support: Paper
- Publications:
- Allison, David, ‘Nevil Story-Maskelyne: Photographer’, The Photographic Collector, Vol. 2, Number 2, Summer, pp.16-36, Bishopsgate Press, London, 1981, Fig. 16. p.26
Morton, Vanda, Oxford Rebels: the life and friends of Nevil Story Maskelyne 1823-1911 pioneer Oxford scientist, photographer and politician, Alan Sutton, Gloucester, 1987, p.123.
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Maskelyne, Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-, minerologist, politician and photographer, 1823-1911
- Subjects:
- Families
People - Places:
- Wiltshire, England
- Related Material:
- Corresponds to Photo 1246/8(16)