The great Tichborne Trial, ca. 1874 / The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
The great Tichborne Trial, ca. 1874 / The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
The great Tichborne Trial, ca. 1874 / The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1874
Call Numbers
DGB 19
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (74 photographs and 1 photographic print) - 15.5 x 24.5 cm (album) - cartes-de-visite, albumen print, leather-bound album
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Issue Copy
Digitised
Finding aids
Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 716 -
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
The collection includes photographs of the claimant, Arthur Orton, the jury, barristers and judges associated with the case, members of the Orton and Tichborne families, and related portraits and views. A number of the photographs are from original drawings.
1a
' " The claimant " / Sketch taken in court, June, 1871 '
Printed below imag...
Alternative Titles
Full title
The great Tichborne Trial, ca. 1874 / The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
The album is untitled; titled from Christie's auction catalogue.
Engravings from photographs of key figures in the case are reproduced in 'The Graphic', Jan-June, 1874, special supplement, pages [22-23]
Keyword subjects:
Bella (ship)
Oldham & Cooper
Watkins & Haight
Watkins, Herbert
Digital order no:Album ID : 950283
Signature / Inscriptions
The majority of the photographs are titled in ink on mount beneath image; a number have titles printed or handwritten on border beneath image; four include printed information on reverse sides.
Attributions / Conjectures
Most of the cartes-de-visite are by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company and the remainder are by Oldham & Cooper, Birmingham (no. 10a, 10b), Watkins & Haight, London (no. 24b), Herbert Watkins, London (no. 31a) and Lock and Whitfield (no. 34b)
Date note
Undated; dated approximately from the end of the second trial.
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Christie's, South Kensington, April 24, 1986 - Lot 591
DG Pic.Acc.327
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DGB 19
Record Identifier
1wN2b32n
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1wN2b32n
Other Identifiers
Reference code
845113
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