‘The Maidenhair Tree’
Date
1869
Creator - Organisation
Thomas Ladmore and Sons, Photographer
Object type
Library reference
Woolhope Transactions_1868_pp264-265
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 89mm
width (print): 82mm
height (mount): 210mm
width (mount): 138mm
width (print): 82mm
height (mount): 210mm
width (mount): 138mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape view with the Ginkgo biloba or Maidenhair tree Salisburia adiantifolia, originally native to China and Japan. With a group of four human figures to the right as viewed and a conservatory behind.
Figure at pp.264/265 accompanying the paper ‘A report of the remarkable trees of Whitfield’, by a commissioner from the Woolhope Club. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 1868 (Times Office, Hereford, 1869) pp.255-276.
Headed above: ‘THE REMARKABLE TREES OF HEREFORDSHIRE’. Printed below: ‘THE MAIDENHAIR TREE. WHITFIELD. (Salisburia Adiantifolia) SEPTEMBER, 1868. This very handsome Japanese tree was planted by Lady Catherine Stanhope soon after 1775, and may therefore be considered about 96 or 97 years old. It is now 50ft. 6in. in height, has a circumference of 7ft. 2in. at 5ft. from the ground, and a diametric spread of branches of 40ft. It is situated near the Conservatory entrance to the kitchen garden at Whitfield, the residence of the Rev. Archer Clive. This Photograph is kindly presented to the Club by the Rev. Archer Clive. Ladmore and Son, Photographers to the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club.’
Thomas Ladmore and Son (active 1860s), photographic studio, operated from 17 King Street, Hereford, Herefordshire.
Figure at pp.264/265 accompanying the paper ‘A report of the remarkable trees of Whitfield’, by a commissioner from the Woolhope Club. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 1868 (Times Office, Hereford, 1869) pp.255-276.
Headed above: ‘THE REMARKABLE TREES OF HEREFORDSHIRE’. Printed below: ‘THE MAIDENHAIR TREE. WHITFIELD. (Salisburia Adiantifolia) SEPTEMBER, 1868. This very handsome Japanese tree was planted by Lady Catherine Stanhope soon after 1775, and may therefore be considered about 96 or 97 years old. It is now 50ft. 6in. in height, has a circumference of 7ft. 2in. at 5ft. from the ground, and a diametric spread of branches of 40ft. It is situated near the Conservatory entrance to the kitchen garden at Whitfield, the residence of the Rev. Archer Clive. This Photograph is kindly presented to the Club by the Rev. Archer Clive. Ladmore and Son, Photographers to the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club.’
Thomas Ladmore and Son (active 1860s), photographic studio, operated from 17 King Street, Hereford, Herefordshire.
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