- 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: 138mm Width: 181mm
- Inventory No
- 11926
- 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. Another negative of the same scene is 66697, and a contemporary positive print print of that 97053.
For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.
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