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ID: 700006045
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700006045
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1
A Group of Men at the South Entrance to York Minster (salted paper print; Sir David Brewster (Scottish, 1781 - 1868) (Scottish Photogr...; September 1844; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 84.XZ.574.109)
Note: This is a detail from a photograph taken by Hill and Adamson, possibly with Talbot's assistance, at the meeting of the British Association held in York at the end of September and beginning of October 1844. Brewster presumably rephotographed the central portion of the original image for this album.
Titles:
A Group of Men at the South Entrance to York Minster (preferred,C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)
The Brewster Album (C,U,VL,English,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
salted paper print [300127149] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs), photographic prints, <photographic prints by process>)

Classifications:
photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: September 1844

Creator Display:
Sir David Brewster (Scottish, 1781 - 1868) (Scottish Photographer); Original photograph by Hill & Adamson (Scottish, active 1843 - 1848) (Scottish Maker) [preferred,JPGM]
photographer Brewster, David (Scottish photographer, 1781-1868) Extent: addition [500043545]
photographer Hill & Adamson (Scottish photography studio, active 1843-1848) Extent: execution [500041217]
Locations:
Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: 84.XZ.574.109
Display Materials: Salted paper print from a Calotype negative
salted paper processes [300053495]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <photography and photographic processes and techniques>, photographic processes)
calotypes (negatives) [300127190]
.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, negatives (photographs), <negatives by process>)
calotype (process) [300053484]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <photography and photographic processes and techniques>, photographic processes, salted paper processes)

Dimensions: Image: 18.4 x 13.8 cm (7 1/4 x 5 7/16 in.)
Cultures:
British (preferred)

General Subject:
portraits (preferred,description)
architecture (description)

Specific Subjects:
men (male humans) [300025928]
.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)
group portrait [300124525]
.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)
York Minster [700002998]
.....(York Minster [700002998], Built Works by class: religious, ceremonial, and funerary structures [700009563], Built Works [700000001]) (CONA)
Gothic (Medieval) [300020775]
.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, Medieval styles and periods, Medieval (European)) (AAT)
group portraits [300124525]
.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Inscription: Inscr. ro. print in ink in the hand of David Brewster: "Mr Adamson" & "Gate of York Minster" & inscr. ro. page in ink: "DB Copies".
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
............... Brewster Codex: portraits, views, group portraits, etc. with drawings, compiled by Sir David Brewster.
Sources and Contributors:
A Group of Men at the South Entrance to York Minster........ [JPGM,VP]
........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
The Brewster Album........ [JPGM,VP]
........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... Smith, Disciples of light (1990) 115
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