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Old Mortality / Still life of Skull, Books, and Hourglass / Vanitas / The Sands of Time
Creator
Thomas Richard WilliamsPhotographer · 1824–1871
All works by this person →Little is known about the life of Thomas Richard Williams. The first professional record of him comes from 1850, when he set up a photographic business in London. In 1854, while working for Philip Henry Delamotte, Williams made his celebrated stereograph daguerreotypes of the Crystal Palace. Some scholars consider Williams to be one of the first photographers to record events as they happened, mak
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1860
- Medium
- Hand-colored albumen silver print
- Culture
- English
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 0df2243b-89d8-463f-9c43-841bd74bce36
What the image shows
A still life featuring a skull on a box, an open book, and a compass on a table draped with a red curtain.
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