Photographs - Portraits
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# 46796
[MENZIES, Robert Gordon, Sir, 1894-1978]
Sir Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for British Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Gelatin silver print, 270 x 220 mm; inscribed, signed and dated on the mount ‘for Harold Wilson, with warm regards Robert Menzies / 1965’; fine condition, presented in a silver frame, housed in a custom blue velvet-lined case. Sir Robert Menzies (1894-1978) served two terms as Prime Minister of Australia, the first from 1939 to …
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![[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] Henry Morton Stanley : a rare studio portrait of the African explorer in his Union naval uniform, taken during his service on USS Minnesota in late 1864 or early 1865.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/03/2025_DSFB_1728-300x300.jpg)
# 46765
STANLEY, Henry Morton [ROWLANDS, John]
[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] Henry Morton Stanley : a rare studio portrait of the African explorer in his Union naval uniform, taken during his service on USS Minnesota in late 1864 or early 1865.
Albumen print photograph (a copy print made in 1872 from a print made by an unidentified American studio in 1864-65), carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘J. Laing, Portrait & Landscape Photographer, Miniature & Portrait Painter. Castle Street, Shrewsbury’, and with an inscription in ink by the original …
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![[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; MEDICINE] Studio portrait of Mary Edwards Walker, the first American female surgeon and the only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Manchester, 1866.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/03/2025_DSFB_1724-300x300.jpg)
# 46766
WALKER, Mary Edwards (1832-1919)
[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; MEDICINE] Studio portrait of Mary Edwards Walker, the first American female surgeon and the only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Manchester, 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); lower margin recto with imprint of ‘Joseph B. Forster, Pho.’, and a roughly contemporary inscription in pencil identifying the sitter as ‘Dr. Mary Walker’; verso with the studio’s printed motto ‘Light and Truth’; in very good condition. A rare full-length studio portrait of …
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# 47037
[ADAMS, Marcus]
Queen Elizabeth II : signed photograph (“Elizabeth R”), also signed by Prince Philip. 1955.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 200 x 150 mm, on its original plain card mount signed in fountain pen in the bottom margin by both Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth R) and Prince Philip (Philip) with the date 1955 in between the two signatures; the photograph is in fine condition; the royal signatures are both strong and …
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# 43401
[Photographer unknown].
Daguerreotype portrait of a young woman.
[U.S.A., 1860-65]. Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 70 x 57 mm (sight); in excellent condition, in the original large oval brass mat, housed in the original octagon thermoplastic case with geometric design (Berg 3-218).
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# 43404
[Photographer unknown].
Daguerreotype portrait of two sisters with arms linked.
[U.S.A., 1850-55]. Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 60 x 70 mm (sight); in excellent condition in the original nonpareil brass mat, housed in the original in a leather case with geometric design (working brass clasp).
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# 43382
[Photographer unknown].
Daguerreotype portrait of a young brother and sister.
[U.S.A., 1850-55]. Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 70 x 60 mm (sight); in excellent condition in the original nonpareil brass mat, housed in the original leather case with floral and geometric designs (two working brass clasps).
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# 46579
BURNELL, George (1830-1894)
“Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina” (1862).
[Title from contemporary inscription in ink verso]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 70 x 75 mm (arch-top format), on original flat mount of pale green/azure card, 85 x 180 mm; fully contemporary inscription in ink verso: ‘Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina’, with the original owner’s initials ‘M.A.H.’ and their collection number ’79’; the …
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# 46462
[WEBSTER, Hartley]
Studio portrait of Māori chief Wiremu Tāmihana (aka William Thompson), “The Kingmaker”, 1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint; verso with fully contemporary note in pencil: ‘Wiremue Tomsana [sic] or William Thompson, The King maker’; both the print and the mount are in very good condition. This would appear to be a pirated copy, probably circulated after the death …
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# 46795
SHMITH, Athol
Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia : signed and inscribed portrait photograph
Gelatin silver print photograph, 155 x 110 mm, mounted in the original portfolio of the Athol Shmith studio, Collins Street, Melbourne (label to verso), boldly inscribed in black felt-tip pen below the photograph ‘Greetings from Harold Holt’; very fine. Harold Edward Holt (1908-1967) served as 17th Prime Minister of Australia from 26 January 1966 to …
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# 46750
THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Studio portrait of Robert Moffatt, LMS missionary in Southern Africa. London, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with printed signature of Robert Moffatt to lower margin; verso with the back mark of the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. ‘Robert Moffatt (Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, December 21, 1795-Leigh, …
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# 46767
THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Carte de visite commemorating Captain Edward Knowles and the emigrant ship “Northfleet”, lost in the English Channel on 22 January 1873 en route to Hobart, Tasmania.
Albumen print photograph, 102 x 63 mm (mount); lower margin recto with printed caption: ‘Captain Knowles. Lost in the Northfleet off Dunganess, Jan. 22 1873’; verso with The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company’s backmark; the print has a couple of light marks; the verso of the mount has some residual glue marks at the edges. …
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# 45904
FARNDELL, Edward; DURYEA, Townsend; MARCHANT, E. W.; VON HARTITZSCH, Otto; RUSHTON & JUST; STUMP & CO., et al.
Alma Plains and Adelaide, South Australia : an important pioneer settlers’ photograph album with portraits of members of families associated with the Church of Christ. 1860s-80s.
Quarto (290 x 230 mm), embossed green leather decorated in gilt (upper board detached and lacking backstrip); title leaf with later family member’s inscription identifying the original owners of the album as ‘Janet and William Howard, Alma Plains – Dalkey’; containing a total of [82] albumen print photographs – [73] in carte de visite format, …
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![[NEW ZEALAND] An archive of studio portrait photographs of members of the families of Benjamin and Edward Smith of Wellington, 1860s to early 1870s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_0657-300x300.jpg)
# 46141
[Various Wellington photographers]
[NEW ZEALAND] An archive of studio portrait photographs of members of the families of Benjamin and Edward Smith of Wellington, 1860s to early 1870s.
Twenty-five albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, average dimensions 100 x 63 mm (mounts), by the Wellington studios of E. S. Richards (4), Richards & Batt (1), Batt & Richards (2), W. H. Davis (7), W. J. Harding (1), Wrigglesworth (1), and Wrigglesworth & Binns (1), and the Wanganui studio of Thomas Tuffin …
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# 46281
HARVEY & DUNDEN
Studio portrait of Andrew Sloan, seated and holding a book. Geelong, Victoria, c.1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with a fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the sitter as ‘Andrew Sloan’; verso with back mark of ‘Harvey & Dunden, Corner Portrait Gallery, Moorabool St., Geelong’; some very light foxing to the print and the mount. We are confident …
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# 46461
[PAAR, Theodor, attributed]
Portraits of Himalayan types, including Nepalese and Tibetan, taken in Darjeeling, 1890s.
Group of 5 (five) albumen print photographs removed from the same late nineteenth-century album, all attributed to the Darjeeling photographer Theodor Paar. I. The Witch at Ghoom. [Caption on mount]. 200 x 150 mm, mounted recto of card mount; very good condition. The subject is believed to have been a Bhutia woman from Tibet, living …