Fine Art
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# 43102
GREENFELD, M. W. (Maximilian William)
Studio portrait of two elegant young ladies reading a letter. Sydney, ca. 1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of ‘The Royal Studio, M. W. Greenfeld, Photographer, Artist in Oil, Water Colors & Crayons. 328, George Street, Sydney’, incorporating a vignette illustration of an artist’s palette; the print has some light surface rubbing in the upper section, …
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# 45623
ADELAIDE PHOTO. COMPANY (SYDNEY)
Dancer in front of a painted studio backdrop. Sydney, early 1890s.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 110 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted in gold ‘Adelaide Photo. Company. Corner of Pitt St. and Park St., Sydney. One door from Criterion Theatre.’; the print has pin holes at the corners but is otherwise excellent; the mount is a little toned (verso blank). …
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# 46361
[Photographer unknown]
Kuala Lumpur v. Special Service Squadron. [16 February, 1924].
[Title from caption on mount]. Large format gelatin silver print photograph, 230 x 280 mm; on original board mount, 355 x 460 mm, captioned in ink across the upper margin ‘KUALA LUMPUR v. SPECIAL SERVICE SQUADRON’; a strong print with excellent clarity, in very good condition; the mount is clean and stable (verso blank). In …
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# 46296
DAVIES, Alan; STANBURY, Peter
The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900.
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985. First printing. Quarto (290 x 220 mm), publisher’s black cloth in dust jacket (scattered foxing to inside of jacket); illustrated endpapers, 270 pp, profusely illustrated; contents clean throughout; a very good copy of the most useful reference work on Australian colonial photography yet published, now very scarce.
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# 46145
[Photographer unknown]
Studio portrait of Samoan London Missionary Society pastor and tutor Saanga and his family, (Apia?) 1906.
Gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 185 x 135 mm (mount); original studio mount (without photographer’s imprint); verso with Saanga’s own inscription in ink identifying the sitters as Saanga, Madeline, Freddy, Sose, Rarotonga, Rita, Edward, and beneath this ‘With Saanga’s kind regards. June 12 ’06‘; a slightly later ownership inscription in pencil at the top …
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# 45880
MENDELSSOHN, Albert
[TICHBORNE CASE] “Twenty Years After,” Roger Tichborne was lost A.D. 1854, the Claimant was lost A.D. 1874.
[Title from artist’s caption]. London : Albert Mendelssohn, [1874]. Albumen print photograph of a satirical cartoon (artist’s monogram W.R. in the image), carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount), recto with the artist’s printed caption to lower margin; verso with wet stamp of ‘Albert Mendelssohn, Publisher, London’; in fine condition. The case of the …
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# 45829
[LEFEBVRE, Jules Joseph, 1836-1911); F. MULNIER (photographer)
[MELBOURNE] Portrait of Jules Joseph Lefebvre, the French artist who painted “Chloé”. Paris, circa 1879.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm; verso with the imprint of the photographic studio of Ferdinand Mulnier, 25 Boulevard des Italiens, which also mentions the gold medal awarded to him at the Exposition Universelle of 1878, and with contemporary captions in ink and pencil identifying the sitter as Lefebvre; in …
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# 45072
[POULTON, S. E., attributed]
[ROWING] The Radley and Eton crews, Henley, 26 June 1858.
Two albumen print photographs with hand tinting, in uniform arch-top format, dimensions 75 x 62 mm; mounted side-by-side on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf, with a fully contemporary pencilled caption between the pair reading ‘Radley and Eton crews, Henley, June 26, 1858’; beneath each print (in pencil, in the same hand as the …
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# 46025
NATIONAL GAME COMPANY
[BOARD GAME] Boy scouts. For any number of players.
[Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co., c.1920]. “Copyright no. 3273”. Thick board, 310 x 475 mm, folding, original cloth backstrip, fold-out game board printed in colour, small split to fold, exterior sunned, edges rubbed, title label perished, a good copy. The design features the Australian Red Ensign with seven-pointed Commonwealth star. The Red Ensign was …
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# 43328
[Photographer unknown]
Ambrotype of a young girl wearing a bonnet.
[British, circa 1860]. Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied colour (pale blue bonnet and ribbon), 73 x 58 mm (image); housed in original oval brass mat and wall case with hook for suspension; in very good condition. A beautiful child portrait, but as much as anything else a lovely hands study.
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# 46034
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Church Missionary Society collection box, circa 1920.
[London : CMS, c.1920]. Wooden box, 140 x 70 x 70 mm, with chromolithographic label on one side illustrated with peoples from CMS missions around the world and worded: CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. SPHERES OF WORK: AFRICA, INDIA, CEYLON, CHINA, JAPAN, PALESTINE, EGYPT, THE SUDAN, PERSIA ETC. / METHODS: EVANGELISTIC, PASTORAL, EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL, INDUSTRIAL, ITINERATING, TRANSLATIONAL …
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# 46089
[Photographer unknown]
Signed photograph of dancer Sally Gilmour, of the Ballet Rambert. Melbourne, circa 1948.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 160 x 110 mm, signed in pencil ‘Sally Gilmour’; verso with faint wet stamp, possibly of the Herald Sun newspaper, although only the words ‘Copyright … Melbourne, Australia’ are discernible; short crease at right-hand edge, otherwise very good; the verso has light foxing. This studio portrait of Sally Gilmour, leading British …
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# 45920
FRY, George
Studio portrait of James Moorhouse, Anglican Bishop of Melbourne 1876-1886. London, circa 1876.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘George Fry, Artist & Photographer. Opalotype Studio, 12 Lower Seymour St., Portman Square, W.’; the print has a couple of tiny ink marks near the top edge, but is otherwise in very good condition, as is the mount. James …
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# 45881
BROWN, Wellesley
A vaudeville actress in theatrical costume. Geelong, Victoria, circa 1905.
Gelatin silver print photograph in cabinet card format, 165 x 107 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘Wellesley Brown, Geelong’; verso blank; both the print and the mount are in very good condition. An unidentified young woman dressed in seventeenth-century men’s costume. In the very early 1900s the photographer, Wellesley Brown, operated the Lucton Studio in Camperdown …
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# 46176
DAWSON, Patrick
Studio portrait of lady resting her hand on a chair. Hamilton, Western District of Victoria, circa 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); embossed imprint of P. Dawson Photographer Hamilton at lower left; verso blank; the print has some tiny spots of foxing and light surface rubbing but is otherwise in good condition, as is the mount. Hamilton photographer Patrick Dawson is best known for his portraits of the …
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# 46174
BURMAN, F. C.
Photographic portrait of the tragic actor G. V. Brooke. Melbourne, 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘F. C. Burman, Photographic Artist, 41 Madeline Street, Carlton, Melbourne’; both the print and mount are have some light marks. The great Irish-born Shakespearean actor Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818-1866) was a significant figure on the Australian colonial stage from …