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Photograph (Cyanotype) of a Large Boulder with a Geologist, by Washington Teasdale, Probably 1880s

Inventory Number: 83564
Object Type:
Persons: Washington Teasdale (Photographer)
Date Created:
Accession Number: 1949-10
Brief Description: Cyanotype (blueprint) positive. A large block or boulder, probably a glacial erratic, probably in Yorkshire, with a man with a geological hammer sitting beside it.
For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.
Primary Inscriptions: Inscribed on back: 'Block of Silurian Grit Norber near Skipton Yorkshire -'.
Provenance: Presented by the Executors of G. H. Gabb in 1949. From the collection of Richard Inwards.
Collection Group: Gabb Collection
Material(s): Paper
Dimensions:
Height Width Depth Diameter Unit
73 98 mm

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