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Photograph (Salted Paper Print) of a Wooded Driveway with Figures, Probably by John Thomson RN, c.1850

Inventory Number 97053


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.97053

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by W. Chesterman in 1937. He was the technician in the Department of Human Anatomy, Oxford, and acquired them from Professor Arthur Thomson (1858-1935). They belonged to his father John Thomson, of Edinburgh, a naval surgeon.
Physical material
Paper
Dimensions
Height: 145mm Width: 154mm
Inventory No
97053
Accession Number
1937-15

Description

Calotype (salted paper print from a calotype negative) of a wooded driveway, or the entrance to a park, with four posed figures and well-detailed trees. Mounted on stiffer paper. Its negative is 66697, and another almost identical (but much denser) negative is 11926.

For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.