Photograph (?Early Gelatine Print) of an Exotic Tree Beside the Glasshouses at the Botanic Garden, Oxford, c.1880

In MS Gunther 64, volume of papers relating to the Botanic Garden, Oxford, 1873-1918. ?Early gelatine print of part of the garden buildings and glasshouses, featuring a very tall exotic tree, apparently growing from a large pot, a gardener standing beside it with a watering can. The tree has large floppy leaves around its base, small branches with brush-like growth at the top, and a very long bare but segmented thin trunk, like a bamboo cane. Vertical format. No identifying inscription. The photograph is the pale yellowy sepia colour of an albumen print, but has a high-gloss surface with some silver tarnishing and is on heavy paper, characteristics that suggest it is an early gelatine print, and thus no earlier than the 1880s. It is bound in (attached to a guard) near the beginning of the volume, between items dated 1873 and 1875.