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Photograph (Early Gelatine Print) of James Bellamy, President of St John's College, Oxford, 1890s

Inventory Number 54726


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.54726

Item type
Object
Primary inscriptions
Inscribed on back: 'The President at Baggley'.
Other inscriptions
Also modern identifying inscription.
Physical material
Paper
Dimensions
Height: 95mm Width: 63mm
Inventory No
54726

Description

Gelatine print. Candid portrait of James Bellamy, seated nearly full length, looking to right and holding a closed umbrella, seen from a low angle. He is on a wooden seat out of doors, presumably on the occasion of the college picnic in Bagley Wood, near Oxford, as in the companion photographs 79311 and 93919. All three are candid photographs, early examples of snapshots. Vertical format.

James Bellamy, DD (1819-1909) was President of St John's College, Oxford, 1871-1909. How the photographs came to the Museum is not known.