‘The King’s Acre Elm’
Date
1869
Creator - Organisation
Thomas Ladmore and Sons, Photographer
Object type
Library reference
Woolhope Transactions_1868_pp80-81
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 beyond a road on which two carts are shown, with a cottage behind the tree.
Figure at pp.80/81 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 KINGS ACRE ELM, TWO MILES WEST OF HEREFORD. APRIL, 1869. This noble tree is situated at Kings Acre, on the high road to Hay. It is long past its prime, and has now lost some branches, though it is still very luxuriant. At five feet from the ground, where the card of the Club is placed (in size 1ft. by 6in.) it measures 18ft. 8in. in circumference. At about 12ft. from the ground, it divides into three stems of great size, of which the one on the south side rises to a height of about 95 feet. 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.80/81 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 KINGS ACRE ELM, TWO MILES WEST OF HEREFORD. APRIL, 1869. This noble tree is situated at Kings Acre, on the high road to Hay. It is long past its prime, and has now lost some branches, though it is still very luxuriant. At five feet from the ground, where the card of the Club is placed (in size 1ft. by 6in.) it measures 18ft. 8in. in circumference. At about 12ft. from the ground, it divides into three stems of great size, of which the one on the south side rises to a height of about 95 feet. 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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