1 photograph : daguerreotype ; visible image 6.5 x 7 cm (sixth plate format), in mount 14 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Photographs
Notes:
The mount bears three annotations in ink on the verso: "Cheltenham College, 13 May 1845" (subsequently crossed out); "B. Jones junr."; and "26 June 1851." The annotations suggest that the photographer is Baynahm Jones (1806-1890), a lawyer and amateur photographer at Cheltenham. He is described in John Werge's The evolution of photography (London: Piper & Carter, 1890), pages 123-124 : "Mr. Baynham Jones was an enthusiastic photographer from the very first, for in 1839, as soon as Daguerre's process was published, he made himself a camera out of a cigar-box and the lens of his opera glass, and being unable to obtain a Daguerreotype plate in the country, he cut up a silver salver and worked away on a solid silver plate until he succeeded in making a Daguerreotype picture ..." In the 1850s and a1860s Jones was a frequent exhibitor of calotypes. The image's connection to Cheltenham College is unclear. Cheltenham Ladies' College was not founded until 1854. The neighboring boys' school started in 1841.
Subject Terms:
Cheltenham College.
Form/Genre:
Family portraits. | Daguerreotypes. | Cased photographs. | Photographs. | Portrait photographs. | Group portraits.