Fine Art

# 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 …

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# 46142

WALTER, Charles (Carl) (1831-1907) (attributed)

Two stereoscopic views taken in Samoa, 1875.

Two stereoscopic albumen print photographs, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm (square format), on original black card mounts, 85 x 176 mm, versos blank; the prints are a little pale, but are otherwise in good condition. This pair of Samoan stereoviews came as part of a small group of stereographic photographs by German-born Victorian …

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# 46175

KRUGER, J. C. A.

Studio portrait of a lady in mourning resting her hand on a plinth. Hamilton, Victoria, 1863-6.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 62 mm; verso imprinted ‘Photographed by J. C. A. Kruger’; the print has some surface scratches toward the the top edge, but is otherwise in good condition; the mount is toned and has some light stains on the verso. From contemporary newspaper notices we can piece …

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# 45879

EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS

Studio portrait of a young woman in Salvation Army uniform. Sydney, late 1890s.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 107 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in very good condition; the mount has scattered foxing.

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# 46163

LETI, Bruno

Bruno Leti. Market forces

Melbourne : the artist, 1991. Folio, folding card portfolio with original signed and numbered screenprint on front panel, containing four signed and numbered sugar lift etchings and four cibachrome prints, the folio also signed and numbered and limited to 35 copies. Leti’s visual response to the Queen Victoria Market. A single copy recorded in Australian …

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