- 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 15'.
- Dimensions
- Height: 187mm Width: 153mm
- Inventory No
- 12741
Description
Albumen print mounted on card. Vertical format. Four ivory turned objects, the components of the candlestick shown assembled in 12739. 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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