Lubbock family at High Elms
Date
20th century
Sitter
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834 - 1913, British) , Biologist
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 151mm
width (print): 202mm
width (print): 202mm
Description
Landscape view showing the Lubbock family outside their house, High Elms white house, Kent.
Inscribed on the reverse in blue ink ‘High Elms white house, dated (by inference) Summer 1843. See MR Derek Wood Daguerrotype correspondence. Copy of an original Daguerrotype. HEWH18431’.
Accompanying paper includes the typescript ‘Daguerreotype showing the Lubbock family at High Elms (1843). The Daguerreotype was a photographic process invented by Louis Daguerre around 1837. This is one of the first outdoor Daguerreotype photographs taken in England, and shows the Lubbock family outside their house at High Elms in Kent. John Lubbock is the boy holding the cricket bat. The photograph was taken by the Lubbocks’ governess, Mademoiselle Schwyer.'
The original attribution to Mademoiselle Schweyer is now known to be wrong. The identity of the photographer is unknown, however, research undertaken by R. Derek Wood suggests it may have been French photographer and artist Antoine Claudet (1797–1867).
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834-1913) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1858 and he was on the Council from 1871-1894.
Inscribed on the reverse in blue ink ‘High Elms white house, dated (by inference) Summer 1843. See MR Derek Wood Daguerrotype correspondence. Copy of an original Daguerrotype. HEWH18431’.
Accompanying paper includes the typescript ‘Daguerreotype showing the Lubbock family at High Elms (1843). The Daguerreotype was a photographic process invented by Louis Daguerre around 1837. This is one of the first outdoor Daguerreotype photographs taken in England, and shows the Lubbock family outside their house at High Elms in Kent. John Lubbock is the boy holding the cricket bat. The photograph was taken by the Lubbocks’ governess, Mademoiselle Schwyer.'
The original attribution to Mademoiselle Schweyer is now known to be wrong. The identity of the photographer is unknown, however, research undertaken by R. Derek Wood suggests it may have been French photographer and artist Antoine Claudet (1797–1867).
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834-1913) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1858 and he was on the Council from 1871-1894.
Object history
On loan from the Lubbock family archive.