Daguerreotype: BE_PRI_HEM096 1854-1855

Collection: Collectie Herman Maes, Belgium i
Language: English
Type: European
Deeplink: http://www.daguerreobase.org/en/type/57a96b63-a85d-be96-5fb8-518201873bfa

Summary

Identification

BE_PRI_HEM096

Dated

Source
Begin: 1854
End: 1855

Image description

court of statutory at the Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London; compare with record: 1990-5037_A.115_10

Tags

stereo; statue; woman; exhibition hall

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Object

Identification

BE_PRI_HEM096

Dated

Source
Begin: 1854
End: 1855

Assessments

Provenance

Image description

court of statutory at the Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London; compare with record: 1990-5037_A.115_10

Subject name

Crystal Palace

Inscription

LCB E/ 3/6 engraved in the glass: Yeates & Son Dublin

Keyword technique

ambrotype - wet collodion on glass

links

Stereo plates

Yes

Window size

Height: 64 mm / 2.52 inch
Width: 67 mm / 2.64 inch

Housing size

Height: 82 mm / 3.23 inch
Width: 170 mm / 6.69 inch
Depth: 5 mm / 0.2 inch

Window shape

Arched

Housing shape

Rectangle

Collection

Identifier: Collectie Herman Maes, Belgium
Description: Private study collection of photographic objects, literature, ephemera. From a conservators technical point of view.

Retailer

Name: Yeates & Son
notes: Samuel Yeates (1762-1834) apprenticed to Seacombe Mason, and the two families intermarried over several generations. Samuel was the first in the family to be described as an 'optician', which meant instrument maker; and circa 1790 established the shop on Grafton Street, on the corner of Nassau Street, which the Yeates company occupied for over 100 years. Samuel's second son, George Yeates (1796-1882) designed improved surveying instruments such as a clinometer, level, rangefinder, and theodolite; and George's seventh child Stephen ran the business after 1865. Samuel's third son Andrew (1800-1876) worked with Edward Troughton in the early 1820s, and in 1833 repaired instruments at the Greenwich Observatory under Troughton's supervision. He wrote 'On the notches, Y's or bearings for the pivots of transit instruments' MNRAS 25 (1865) 214-215. Andrew ran an instrument business in London from 1837 to 1873, and married the daughter of Cornelius Varley (Andrew Yeates FRAS, obituary MNRAS 37 (1877) (159-160). The Yeates family manufactured a very large variety of scientific instruments, and circa 1880 their catalogs listed over 2,000 items, including telescopes such as a 'walking stick telescope'. Many items were noted as 'improved' by Yeates. Most of the instruments were probably made by Yeates; although a Grubb equatorial telescope was also sold. Yeates was by appointment the instrument maker for Trinity College. source: Abrahams, Peter, The Telescope in Ireland: Obscure makers & marks. Irish telescope makers and Irish signatures on telescopes., 1990, pp72-73.
nationality: United Kingdom

Assessment

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Housing

Mat

Case

Rails decoration remarks

Cover

Rails

Decoration remarks

Binding

Frame

Finishing paper

Backing

Material: Cardboard with paper covering

Cover glass

Present: Yes
Painted: Yes
Colour: Black
Decoration: Gilded border

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Plate

Polishing lines
Annotation

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Hallmark

No plate-mark information available for this record

Gallery

Rights on every image:: The Public Domain Mark (PDM)

Before conservation