'Physogs' Card Game

Made:
1930 in London
maker:
Waddy Production

Card Game, "Physogs" b/w photograph mounted on cardboard, in cardboard box. Manufactured by "Waddy" Production, Astor House, Aldwych, London WC2. Undated. Contains 1 copy of Book of Keys, one copy of rules of play (both torn), 4 frame cards, 12 eye cards (13), 11 nose cards (13), 13 mouth cards (13), 11 type cards (13). Cardboard box lid broken

Details

Category:
Printed Materials & Ephemera
Object Number:
1990-5013
type:
card game
credit:
Taylor, R.

Parts

Alexander Handyside Ritchie

Alexander Handyside Ritchie

Mounted calotype print by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Half-length portrait of sculptor Alexander Handyside Ritchie (1804-1870).

Measurements:
overall: 200 mm x 154 mm
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Object Number:
1990-5013/16329
type:
calotype process
Miss Mary McCandlish

Miss Mary McCandlish

Mounted photogravure of earlier calotype print by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, printed ca. 1900. Portrait of Miss Mary McCandlish.


The array of types Hill and Adamson photographed were subsequently produced in book form and as photogravures. Four of these produced by J C Annan are in the collection of the AGNSW. ‘Camera Work’, the high-quality art journal published by Alfred Stieglitz between 1903 and 1917, also reproduced in photogravure three suites of Hill and Adamson portraits. Miss Mary McCandlish, beautifully dressed and sitting in an arbour of roses, is remarkable not least for her expression. Despite having to sit for the required exposure time, she does not appear stiffly posed as in most photographs of this period, but simply to have an unusual and interesting personality.

Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Object Number:
1990-5013/16330
type:
photogravure
Jimmy Miller, Highland Boy

Jimmy Miller, Highland Boy

Mounted calotype print by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Portrait of Jimmy Miller, son of professor James Miller, in Highland dress.

Measurements:
overall: 191 mm x 135 mm
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Object Number:
1990-5013/16331
type:
photogravure
Unknown Man

Unknown Man

Mounted calotype print by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Portrait of and unknown man wearing military-style uniform.

Measurements:
overall: 175 mm x 145 mm
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Object Number:
1990-5013/16332
type:
photogravure
Miss Binney

Miss Binney

Mounted calotype print by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Portrait of Miss Binney (later Mrs James Webster).

Measurements:
overall: 197 mm x 140 mm
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Object Number:
1990-5013/16333
type:
photogravure