- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Henry W. Taunt & Co.
- Provenance
- Presumably from R. T. Gunther, who received some of T. H. T. Hopkins's lathe and mechanics papers from Edward Chapman.
- Primary inscriptions
- Printed photographer's name on front of mount: 'Photographed by Henry W. Taunt & Co.'.
- Dimensions
- Height: 153mm Width: 205mm
- Inventory No
- 12723
Description
Albumen print mounted on card. Horizontal format. A lathe with geared drive-wheel and machine tools including a cutting tool attached, a hemispherical piece of work held in the lathe, drive belts going to an (invisible) overhead drive shaft; a cloth mounted as temporary backdrop. A handwritten label propped on the lathe reads: 'Spiral Apparatus | and | Spherical Rest | T.[?]'. The instrument is the Holtzapffel lathe belonging to T. H. T. Hopkins (1833-1885), which he used in a workshop in an attic at Magdalen College. See accompaying Taunt photographs of objects that Hopkins turned on this lathe, 12724, 12725, and 12726.
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