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Call Number:

PH-00116

Collection Name:

Gilbert Venables Photography Collection

Creator:

Venables, Gilbert

No. of Items:

38 items

Span Dates:

1865 ca.

Description:

The collection consists of thirty-eight albumen prints by amateur photographer Gilbert Venables (British, active 1860s). The photographs, which date to circa 1865, are various views along the Thames River. Titles from inscriptions on the verso of each print follow.

964:0426:0001 -- Bray Church;
964:0426:0002 -- Sunbury Church;
964:0426:0003 -- Walton Church;
964:0426:0004 -- Wargrave Church;
964:0426:0005 -- Fawley Temple;
964:0426:0006 -- Cliefden Ferry by [Elysin] House;
964:0426:0007 -- Basildon Ferry;
964:0426:0008 -- Mapledurham;
964:0426:0009 -- Mapledurham Mill and Church;
964:0426:0010 -- Mapledurham Mill;
964:0426:0011 -- Medmenham Perry House;
964:0426:0012 -- Hampton;
964:0426:0013 -- Windsor Castle;
964:0426:0014 -- Windsor Castle;
964:0426:0015 -- Magna Charta Island;
964:0426:0016 -- Cliefden;
964:0426:0017 -- Taplow;
964:0426:0018 -- Sonning Bridge;
964:0426:0019 -- Sonning from the Bridge;
964:0426:0020 -- Wallingford;
964:0426:0021 -- Bell Dock by Lock House;
964:0426:0022 -- Caversham;
964:0426:0023 -- Cookham Weir;
964:0426:0024 -- Goring Weir;
964:0426:0025 -- Nuneham Courtenay;
964:0426:0026 -- Boutlers Lock and Lock House;
964:0426:0027 -- Cookham Lock;
964:0426:0028 -- Goring Church Lock by Bridge;
964:0426:0029 -- Great Marlow from the Lock;
964:0426:0030 -- Henley - Marsh Lock;
964:0426:0031 -- Sunbury Lock;
964:0426:0032 -- Whitchurch Lock;
964:0426:0033 -- Windsor House Lock;
964:0426:0034 -- Henley Lock and Weir;
964:0426:0035 -- Streatley from the Towing Bridge;
964:0426:0036 -- Magdalen College;
964:0426:0037 -- Cookham the Grove;
964:0426:0038 -- University Barges.

Accession No(s):

964:0426:0001-0038; Purchase, 1963

Location(s):

V Box, Medium (964:0426:0007)
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Venables, G. Box 1 (964:0426:0001-0006; 0008-0020)
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Venables, G. Box 2 (964:0426:0021-0038)
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Item(s):

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Bray Church]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	9.8 x 12.7 cm; 3 9/10 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0001

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Sunbury Church ]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.8 cm; 4 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0002

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Walton Church ]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	9.5 x 12.2 cm; 3 7/10 x 4 4/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0003

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Wargrave Church]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.2 x 12.6 cm; 4 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0004

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Fawley Temple ]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10 x 13 cm; 3 9/10 x 5 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0005

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	Cliefden Ferry by [Elysin] House
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.8 cm; 4 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0006

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Basildon Ferry]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 13 cm; 4 x 5 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0007

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Mapledurham]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	9.8 x 13.1 cm; 3 9/10 x 5 1/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0008

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Mapledurham Mill and Church]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.8 cm; 4 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0009

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Mapledurham Mill]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.8 cm; 4 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0010

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Medmenham Perry House]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.5 cm; 4 x 4 9/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0011

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Hampton]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	9.8 x 12.1 cm; 3 9/10 x 4 4/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0012

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Windsor Castle ]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 13.5 cm; 4 x 5 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0013

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Windsor Castle ]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 13.9 cm; 4 x 5 1/2 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0014

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Magna Charta Island ]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10 x 12.7 cm; 3 9/10 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0015

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Cliefden]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.9 cm; 4 x 5 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0016

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Taplow]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10 x 12.7 cm; 3 9/10 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0017

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Sonning Bridge]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.9 cm; 4 x 5 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0018

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Sonning from the Bridge]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.4 cm; 4 x 4 9/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0019

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Wallingford]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.4 cm; 4 x 4 9/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0020

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Bell Dock by Lock House ]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 13.4 cm; 4 x 5 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0021

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Caversham]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12 cm; 4 x 4 7/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0022

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Cookham Weir]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	9.7 x 12.7 cm; 3 4/5 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0023

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Goring Weir]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.8 cm; 4 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0024

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Nuneham Courtenay]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 13.9 cm; 4 x 5 1/2 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0025

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Boutlers Lock and Lock house]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.8 cm; 4 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0026

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Cookham Lock]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	9.7 x 12.4 cm; 3 4/5 x 4 9/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0027

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Goring Church Lock by Bridge ]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.2 cm; 4 x 4 4/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0028

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Great Marlow from the lock]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.9 cm; 4 x 5 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0029

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Henley - Marsh Lock]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.9 cm; 4 x 5 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0030

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Sunbury Lock]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	9.4 x 12.6 cm; 3 7/10 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0031

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Whitchurch Lock]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.6 cm; 4 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0032

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Windsor House Lock ]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.3 cm; 4 x 4 4/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0033

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Henley Lock and Weir]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.2 x 13 cm; 4 x 5 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0034

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Streatley from the Towing Bridge]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	9.4 x 12.9 cm; 3 7/10 x 5 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0035

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Magdalen College]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 13.6 cm; 4 x 5 2/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0036

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[Cookham the Grove]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	10.1 x 12.8 cm; 4 x 5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0037

Artist/Maker	Venables, Gilbert
Title	[University Barges]
Date	circa 1865
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	9.2 x 12.2 cm; 3 3/5 x 4 4/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0426:0038

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