- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Holtzapffel & 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 caption: 'Designs for Turning. | Published by Holtzapffel & Co., - 64, Charing Cross, London. | (Copyright secured.)'. Annotated: 'No 9.'.
- Dimensions
- Height: 189mm Width: 154mm
- Inventory No
- 12735
Description
Albumen print mounted on card. Vertical format. A turned ornamental pillar and base, perhaps meant to represent a candle. One of 15 numbered photographs of turned objects (12731 to 12739, 12741 to 12743, 12785, 12787, 12788), issued by the lathe manufacturers Holtzapffel & Co. as specimens of what could be made on their lathes. The 4 photographs of turned temples (12727 to 12730) are also associated.
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