• Reference
    AU48/4/3
  • Title
    Photograph of Annette Sparks, Ellen Sparks, Grace E Pooley, J W Smyth DD, Charles Shrimpton, Richard Wallace (founder of the Wallace Collection), A Herbert, John Rosecarnack and Reginald Gesling taken at the siege of Paris 1870-71.
  • Date free text
    1870-1871 this photograph made 1986
  • Production date
    From: 1870 To: 1871
  • Scope and Content
    J W Smyth was chaplain to the British Embassy in Paris. He married Ellen Sparks a few months after the photograph was taken. He left Paris and on returning to England became rector of Steppingley, where he died.
  • Copy supplied from a negative in the Wallace Collection, London.
  • Level of description
    item