Brading, Isle of Wight: Little Jane's Cottage. Photograph attributed to Capt. Robert Gordon, 1863.

Formerly the home in Brading, Isle of Wight, of Jane Squibb who was commemorated in Annals of the poor by the Revd Leigh Richmond, curate-in-charge of Brading and Yaverland from 1797 to 1805. Jane used to visit his Sunday School classes, held at St Mary's church, Brading. She died of tuberculosis, aged 15, on 30 January 1799 and is buried in St Mary's churchyard. In the photograph, a man holding a basket stands at the open gate of Little Jane's Cottage

"This is by far the best and most complete series of views of this charming island we have seen ... In many of these pictures, which, we should remark, on twelve by ten plates ... We have not space to notice each picture in detail, but we may mention a few which we consider especially good. "Little Jane's Cottage", a spot rendered famous by the Rev. Leigh Richmond as the residence of the "Dairyman's Daughter", is a very charming photograph, brilliant, yet soft and harmonious, with an atmospheric sky and indefinitely indicated clouds; a rustic figure just entering the garden gives life to the picture."--Photographic news, loc. cit. The mention of the "Dairyman's Daughter" is noted by Turley as erroneous

[1863?]

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 23.4 x 28.8 cm

'The Isle of Wight. A series of views photographed by Robert Gordon, Bembridge I. W.', Photographic news, 17 April 1863, pp. 182-183, repr. in Turley, loc. cit.

Raymond V. Turley, Isle of Wight photographers 1840-1940, Southampton: University of Southampton Library, 2001, p. 228

Photographic exhibitions in Britain 1839-1865 (www.peib.org.uk), probably identical with photograph in the Photographic Society exhibition, London 1863, no. 271, "Little Jane's Cottage, Brading, Isle of Wight, by Captain Robert Gordon, Collodion, 5/-"

Wellcome Collection 24242i