- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- John Thomson
- 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.
Related Items
More related items- Photograph (Calotype Negative) of a Wooded Driveway with Figures, Probably by John Thomson RN, c.1850Inventory Number 11926
- Photograph (Calotype Negative) of a Wooded Driveway with Figures, Probably by John Thomson RN, c.1850Inventory Number 66697
- Photograph (Calotype Negative) of an Urban Street with Ghostly Figures, Probably by John Thomson RN, c.1850Inventory Number 11924
- Photograph (Albumen Print) of a Ruined Column, Probably by John Thomson RN, 1850sInventory Number 11922