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Photograph (Calotype Negative) of a Wooded Driveway with Figures, Probably by John Thomson RN, c.1850

Inventory Number 66697


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
Object type
photograph
Dimensions
Height: 142mm Width: 180mm
Inventory No
66697
Accession Number
1937-15

Description

Calotype negative, waxed, of a wooded driveway, or the entrance to a park, with four posed figures and well-detailed trees. Contemporary positive print is 97053, and another almost identical (but much denser) negative 11926.

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