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Home of Vero Charles Driffield, Widnes, Cheshire

Photograph
1886 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Hurter and Driffield (photographers)

A mounted sepia-toned photograph of a house with a descriptive label and annotations regarding the circumstances of production.

Object details

Categories
The Royal Photographic Society
Photographs
Science
Object type
Photograph
TitleHome of Vero Charles Driffield, Widnes, Cheshire (generic title)
Materials and techniques
bromide print
Photographic Paper
Photography
Bromide Process
Brief description
Photograph by Vero Charles Driffield, 'Home of Vero Charles Driffield, Widnes, Cheshire', bromide print, 1886
Physical description
A mounted sepia-toned photograph of a house with a descriptive label and annotations regarding the circumstances of production.
Dimensions
  • Mount height: 17.6cm
  • Mount width: 11.4cm
  • Image height: 6.1cm
  • Image width: 10.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Photograph by Vero Charles Driffield of his home in Widnes, now demolished. Description in his handwriting, address added by his daughter.

    Note
    ink, recto, mount

  • Given by Driffield's daughter to Robert Dickinson who presented it to the RPS in July 1973'

    Note
    ink, verso, mount

Credit line
The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund
Object history
This photograph is assembled in a box along with other photographs and various ephemera relating to Hurter & Driffield's actinometer and actinomgraph experiments.
Subject depicted
Houses
Place depicted
Cheshire
Other number
2003-5001/2/24711 - Science Museum Group accession number
Collection
Department of Photography
Accession number
RPS.465-2025

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Record createdFebruary 10, 2025
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1796241/home-of-vero-charles-driffield-photograph-hurter-and-driffield/
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