‘The Trevil Elm’
Date
1869
Creator - Organisation
Thomas Ladmore and Sons, Photographer
Object type
Library reference
Woolhope Transactions_1868_pp90-91
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 group of four human figures, standing and seated, all situated on a country road.
Figure at pp.90/91 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 TREVIL ELM. TRELOUGH. APRIL, 1869. This fine picturesque old tree, sometimes called THE WORMBRIDGE ELM, is situated by the high road on the green at Trelough. At five feet from the ground, where the card of the Club is placed (in size, is 1ft. by 6in.) it measures 17ft. 8in in girth. It is 86 feet high, and has an east and west diametric spread of foliage of 31 yards. 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.90/91 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 TREVIL ELM. TRELOUGH. APRIL, 1869. This fine picturesque old tree, sometimes called THE WORMBRIDGE ELM, is situated by the high road on the green at Trelough. At five feet from the ground, where the card of the Club is placed (in size, is 1ft. by 6in.) it measures 17ft. 8in in girth. It is 86 feet high, and has an east and west diametric spread of foliage of 31 yards. 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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