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ID: 700006092
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700006092
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1
Basset Down House (salted paper print; Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne (English mineralogist a...; 1846; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 84.XZ.574.156)
Titles:
Basset Down House (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: 1846

Creator Display:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne (English mineralogist and photographer, 1823-1911) [preferred,VP]
M.H. Nevil Story-Maskelyne (British, 1823 - 1911) (British Photographer) [,JPGM]
photographer Story-Maskelyne, Mervyn Herbert Nevil (English mineralogist and photographer, 1823-1911) [500032487]
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.574.156
Other: Creation: Wiltshire [7008180] England (country), United Kingdom (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
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: 10 x 15.4 cm (3 15/16 x 6 1/16 in.)
Cultures:
British (preferred)

General Subject:
architecture (preferred,description)

Specific Subjects:
Basset Down House [700002987]
.....(Basset Down House [700002987], Built Works by class: residential structures [700009562], Built Works [700000001]) (CONA)

Inscriptions: Inscription: Inscr. ro. page in ink in the hand of David Brewster: "Nevil Story Maskelyne Phot".
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:
Basset Down House........ [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]
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