‘The Holme Lacy Elm’
Date
1869
Creator - Organisation
Thomas Ladmore and Sons, Photographer
Object type
Library reference
Woolhope Transactions_1868_pp86-87
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 88mm
width (print): 82mm
height (mount): 210mm
width (mount): 138mm
width (print): 82mm
height (mount): 210mm
width (mount): 138mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape view of the elm tree Ulmus with a human figure to the right as viewed, to provide scale.
Figure at pp.86/87 accompanying the paper ‘The elm tree in Herefordshire’, by Henry Graves Bull. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 1868 (Times Office, Hereford, 1869) pp.80-95.
Headed above: ‘THE REMARKABLE TREES OF HEREFORDSHIRE’. Printed below: ‘THE HOLME LACY ELM (Ulmus campestris.) APRIL, 1869. This fine old tree is situated in the Park at Holme Lacy (Sir E.F.Scudamore Stanhope, Bart.) It is hollow throughout, and all its large lower limbs, and many others up the tree, are broken off. It keeps its full height nevertheless, and has still many luxuriant boughs. It measures 27ft. in circumference at 5ft. fro the ground, where the card of the Club is placed (this in size, is 1ft. by 6in.) and its exact height is 104 feet by Mr. Wells’s clinometer. Ladmore and Son, Photographers to the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club.’
Dr Henry Graves Bull (1818-1885) physician and naturalist, founder of the British Mycological Society.
Thomas Ladmore and Son (active 1860s), photographic studio, operated from 17 King Street, Hereford, Herefordshire.
Figure at pp.86/87 accompanying the paper ‘The elm tree in Herefordshire’, by Henry Graves Bull. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 1868 (Times Office, Hereford, 1869) pp.80-95.
Headed above: ‘THE REMARKABLE TREES OF HEREFORDSHIRE’. Printed below: ‘THE HOLME LACY ELM (Ulmus campestris.) APRIL, 1869. This fine old tree is situated in the Park at Holme Lacy (Sir E.F.Scudamore Stanhope, Bart.) It is hollow throughout, and all its large lower limbs, and many others up the tree, are broken off. It keeps its full height nevertheless, and has still many luxuriant boughs. It measures 27ft. in circumference at 5ft. fro the ground, where the card of the Club is placed (this in size, is 1ft. by 6in.) and its exact height is 104 feet by Mr. Wells’s clinometer. Ladmore and Son, Photographers to the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club.’
Dr Henry Graves Bull (1818-1885) physician and naturalist, founder of the British Mycological Society.
Thomas Ladmore and Son (active 1860s), photographic studio, operated from 17 King Street, Hereford, Herefordshire.
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