- 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
- 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.
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 (Salted Paper Print) of a Wooded Driveway with Figures, Probably by John Thomson RN, c.1850Inventory Number 97053- Photograph (Calotype Negative) of an Urban Street with Ghostly Figures, Probably by John Thomson RN, c.1850Inventory Number 11924
- Photograph (Calotype Negative) of a Bay with Boats, Probably by John Thomson RN, c.1850Inventory Number 11932