Photographs - Portraits
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![[TASMANIA] Ambrotype portrait of Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet. Launceston(?), c.1855; plus associated photographic portraits of members of the Richardson and Sherwin families.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/06/2025_DSFB_3175-300x300.jpg)
# 43660
[Various photographers]
[TASMANIA] Ambrotype portrait of Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet. Launceston(?), c.1855; plus associated photographic portraits of members of the Richardson and Sherwin families.
I. Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet, c.1855. [Photographer unknown]. Half-plate ambrotype with hand colouring, 120 x 90 mm (sight), housed in a brass mat with ormolu preserver under the original cover glass and in the original leather half-case; verso with two brass hooks and wire for wall hanging; small areas …
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# 47350
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 (light edge wear, scattered foxing to inside of jacket), stain to lower edge; illustrated endpapers, 270 pp, profusely illustrated; contents clean throughout; a good copy of the most useful reference work on Australian colonial photography yet …
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# 46804
BATCHELOR, W. H. (William Henry)
Studio portrait of a young girl from the Lower family, Kooringa, South Australia, 1867-8.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm; verso with the back mark in blue of ‘W. H. Batchelor, Photographer, Kooringa’, which features his family crest with the motto De coelo veritas (From Heaven, Truth); there is also a small inscription in ink in the upper corner, probably written by Batchelor: ‘Mr. …
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# 47229
BEATTIE, J. W. (John Watt)
The New South Wales representative soccer team. Hobart, August 1911.
Hobart : J. W. Beattie, [1911]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 85 x 132 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; verso wet-stamped ‘Prepared by J. W. Beattie, Hobart, Tasmania’; not mailed; mild corner wear, verso with a few minor stains, else very good condition. A rare photograph documenting a significant event in the early history …
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# 47154
OTTO, J. H. (Johann Henri)
Portrait of a group of Menang Noongar men and women. Albany area, Western Australia, late 1880s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount), verso with wet stamp of ‘J. H. Otto, Portrait and Landscape Photographer, Albany, W.A.’; the print has mottling in the negative and has lost some contrast; the mount has old residual glue marks verso (the carte was once mounted in an album). A …
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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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# 47059
FORD, Sue (1943-2009)
Shadow Portraits (1994)
Group of 7 (seven) bubblejet prints made by the artist, dimensions 145 x 90 mm (approx.); unmounted; all in fine condition; accompanied by a manila envelope annotated by Virginia Fraser ‘Sue Ford’s Shadow pictures’. Acclaimed Australian photographer Sue Ford’s series Shadow Portraits (1994) is concerned with ‘issues of race, representation and colonisation’ (NPG). The montage …
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![[BOROVANSKY BALLET] Signed photograph of New Zealand-born dancer Jonet Wilkie. Melbourne, November 1946.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2620-300x300.jpg)
# 47149
STEELE PHOTOGRAHY LTD. (Auckland)
[BOROVANSKY BALLET] Signed photograph of New Zealand-born dancer Jonet Wilkie. Melbourne, November 1946.
Gelatin silver print, 150 x 100 mm, with the blind stamp of ‘Steele, Auckland’ lower right, and inscribed in pen ‘For Kerry, with best wishes, Jonet Wilkie’; verso with pencilled date of 21/11/46 (the date that the photograph was inscribed for Kerry, a Melbourne ballet fan, during the Borovansky Ballet’s season at His Majesty’s Theatre); some …
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# 46211
WOOLLEY, Charles
Studio portrait of a gentleman wearing a white bow-tie. Hobart Town, Tasmania, early 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, 106 x 62 mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘Chas. A. Woolley, 42 Macquarie St., Hobart Town’; the print and the mount are both in fine condition.
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# 46280
BOAKE, Barcroft Capel
Studio portrait of Rev. H. A. Palmer, incumbent of Petersham, taken shortly before his death. Sydney, 1879.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘B. Boake / Photographer, Miniature & Portrait Painter. 353 George Street [wet-stamped over 530 George Street] Sydney’, and fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the sitter: ‘Revd. Mr. Palmer. Sydney, NSW 1879’; both the print and mount are …
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# 47086
BOAKE, Barcroft Capel
Signed and inscribed studio portrait of 4th Engineer John Hall, HMS Endymion, in full dress uniform. Sydney, New South Wales, December 1869.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of ‘B. C. Boake, from Freeman Bros., Photographer, 330 George St., Sydney (over Mr. Jones, Jeweller &c.)’, and inscribed and signed in ink by the sitter: ‘In remembrance of your visit on board HMS Endymion. Jno. Hall’; both …
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# 47082
MEEK, James
Studio portrait of a dapper young man seated on a chair. Hamilton, Victoria, c.1890.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘ Meek / Grey St., Hamilton’; verso blank; both the albumen print and mount are in fine condition.
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# 46183
JOHNSTONE, O'SHANNNESSY & CO.
Studio portrait of young woman in a fine dress, holding a carte de visite album. Melbourne, c.1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co., Artist Photographers, 3 Bourke Street East, next the Post Office, Melbourne’; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. Provenance: From a family album belonging to Alexander Sloane (1829-1907) and his wife Annabella …
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# 46210
SPURLING, Stephen (I)
Tinted studio portrait of Miss M. Robertson. Hobart Town, Tasmania, 1868.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, 102 x 63 mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘S. Spurling, Photographer, Hobart Town. Prize Medallist, for Portraiture, Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1866’, and a fully contemporary inscription in pencil: ‘Miss M. Robertson, Tasmania / 1868’; some very pale foxing to the print and the mount. The elegant sitter …
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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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# 46920
KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888)
“Queen Mary, Ballarat”.
[Caption from inscription on verso of mount]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso inscribed in ink (probably in the hand of the photographer) ‘Queen Mary / Ballarat’; a beautiful print with excellent clarity; the mount is clean and stable. This full-length portrait of Mary Phillips, who was commonly …