Daguerreotype: Ph146-1985 1854-05-08-1869

Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom
Language: English
Type: Other
Deeplink: http://daguerreobase.org/en/type/8d759f24-4709-8a3b-135b-53412547eae4

Identification

Ph146-1985

Dated

Source
Begin: 1854-05-08
End: 1869

Image description

Portrait of Agnes Turner (Mrs. Benjamin Brecknell Turner). She wears a silk dress with a deep flounce of lace afrom the neck to the waist, coloured blue. She has ringlets and a bracelet. A gilded chair and ornate carved and gilded table can be seen on the left. The painted backdrop includes a column base.

Tags

woman; lace frills; ringlet; dress; bracelet; chair; table; backdrop; column; hand coloured; gold highlight

Links

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1049546/daguerreotype/
http://www.photolondon.org.uk/pages/details.asp?pid=1256
http://www.londonstereo.com/trwilliams/biography.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Richard_Williams

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Object

Subject location

City of Westminster

Identification

Ph146-1985

Dated

Source
Begin: 1854-05-08
End: 1869

Number of plates

Remarks general

in dark red leather case, DIMENSIONS 90 X 178 X 10mm. Stamped grooves along borders on front and back. Closed by folding a flap into a slit in the front. Gold-stamped inscription on inside of flap 'T.R.WILLIAMS REGENT 236 STREET PHOTOGRAPHER'.

Assessments

Provenance

Image description

Subject name

Turner, Agnes

Inscription

Hand-written in pencil on mat 'T.R.W. London'

Keyword technique

daguerreotype

links

Stereo plates

Yes

Window size

Height: 69 mm / 2.72 inch
Width: 57 mm / 2.24 inch

Housing size

Height: 84 mm / 3.31 inch
Width: 171.5 mm / 6.75 inch
Depth: 3.5 mm / 0.14 inch

Window shape

Arched

Housing shape

Rectangle

Collection

Identifier: Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom

Creator

Name: Williams, Thomas Richard
notes: Zu einem der wichtigsten englischen Protagonisten der Stereofotografie in den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts entwickelte sich T. R. Williams, der zunächst nur in der „zweiten Reihe“ tätig war: Er soll schon früh als Operateur bei Claudet und bei Beard in London gearbeitet haben. Seine exzellenten Kenntnisse auf dem Gebiet der Stereodaguerreotypie brachte Williams zu Beginn der 1850er Jahre enormen Erfolg ein. Legendär sind seine Stereoskopen mit Ansichten aus dem Kristallpalast, aber auch die stillebenhaften, mitunter allegorisch gemeinten Kompositionen. (J.V.)

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