Photographs - Portraits
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# 50597
DAVIES & CO.
A post-mortem photograph of “Baby Sellar”, St. Kilda (Melbourne), 1862.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 110 x 68 mm (mount); recto with contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Baby Sellar’; verso with studio’s printed label: ‘Photographed by Davies & Co., Artists, 98, Bourke Street East, Opposite the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, and High Street, Junction, St. Kilda’; very light foxing to both sides. According to Davies …
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# 50836
LESAINT, Edward (1870-1940) (director)
Sydney-born Australian silent film actress Louise Lovely in two scenes from “Painted Lips” (1918).
Los Angeles, California : Edward LeSaint, [c.1918]. Two gelatin silver print photographs on lightweight card stock, in identical 160 x 210 mm format; the negatives inscribed ‘LeSaint 2439’ and ‘LeSaint 2739’ and the versos with old pencil annotations: ‘Louise Lovely’ and ‘The Straw Cellar’, respectively; both prints are in fine condition (unframed). Two stills from …
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# 43253
[Photographer unknown]
Tinted daguerreotype portrait of a young man holding a daguerreotype case, 1845-48.
[Bristish, c.1850]. Ninth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 55 x 42 mm (sight); in a rectangular brass mat, housed in a plain leather case with push-button lock; the daguerreotype is in fine condition as is the case. Ex Berry Collection Part 1, Young’s Auctions, Melbourne, 25 August 2008, lot 433 (part)
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# 43257
[Photographer unknown].
Daguerreotype portrait of a handsome young man with his hand hidden in his suit coat, c.1850.
[British, c.1850]. Ninth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 55 x 40 mm (sight); in an arch-top brass mat, housed in a plain leather case with working clasp; the daguerreotype is in very fine condition, with a slight tarnish halo. Ex Ken Turner Collection.
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# 51038
DURYEA, Townsend
Studio portrait of a gentleman wearing a black cravat. Adelaide, South Australia, c.1873.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm; verso with the elaborate back mark of ‘Townsend Duryea, Artist Photographer. By Appointment. 66 & 68 King William Street, Adelaide’, surrounded by the crests of the Duke of Edinburgh, Sir James Fergusson, Sir Dominick Daly, Sir R. G. MacDonnell, and Anthony Musgrave; both the …
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# 50837
[Photographer unknown].
Studio portrait of Gastone Lurini, brother of Futurist artist Marisa Mori, c.1915.
[Italy : s.n., c.1915]. Gelatin print photograph printed on postcard stock, 137 x 87 mm; verso inscribed in ink: ‘Gastone Lurini’; in good condition, the verso with paper borders from an old mount. Gastone Lurini (1898-1916) was the son of Italian writer and intellectual Edmea Lurini Bernini, and older brother of Marisa Mori (1900-1985), a …
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# 43256
[Photographer unknown]
Tinted daguerreotype portrait of a middle-aged man in a patterned vest, early 1850s.
[British, 1850-1855]. Ninth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 55 x 40 mm (sight); in an arch-top brass mat (scattered mould spiders), housed in a plain leather case with working clasp; the daguerreotype is in good condition, the case is a little scuffed; accompanied by an old Christie’s, Melbourne auction house label from October 1998.
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# 50828
SCHWEIGHOFER, Felix; MAYER, Otto (photographer)
Felix Schweighofer, Austrian actor : real photo portrait postcard with signed autograph message to opera librettist Emil Norini. Blasewitz (Dresden), July 1907.
Gelatin silver print photograph, printed on postcard stock, 137 x 87 mm; in the negative are the photographer’s handwritten details lower left ‘Otto Mayer, Dresden’, and facsimile signature of Felix Schweighofer lower right; lower margin recto with Schweighofer’s handwritten note explaining that the portrait is of him in character as August Nippes for the comedy …
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# 50829
ANGERER, Victor
Gisela Timony, Viennese actress : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for opera librettist Emil Norini. Vienna, April 1903.
Wien : Victor Angerer, [1903]. Silver albumen print photograph in cabinet card format, 163 x 103 mm; signed by the sitter in ink in the image lower right: ‘Gisi Timony’; verso with the Angerer studio imprint and with a presentation inscription by Timony: ‘Meinen lieben Collegen Herrn Emil Norini, zur freundlichen Errinerung, Wien 5. IV. …
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# 51035
[Photographer unknown].
Men at leisure: a spot of rowing, some beach cricket, a picnic hamper, and a bottle of wine. Near Melbourne, c.1910.
Silver bromide print, 150 x 200 mm; very good condition, on it original board mount, 180 x 235 mm (chipped at one corner). From a large group of Melbourne family photographs.
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# 50411
LINDT, J. W. (1845–1926)
Studio portraits of an officer in one of the Victorian volunteer regiments. Melbourne, c.1885.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); versos with the highly decorative back mark of ‘J. W. Lindt, Photographer, 7 Collins Street East, Melbourne. Prize Medallist Philadelphia, Paris, Sydney, Brisbane, Sandhurst, Melbourne, Christchurch, Amsterdam’; both in fine condition. The carte can be dated to around 1885 based on the …
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# 50594
BATCHELDER & CO.
Studio portrait of Lieutenant Nassau Stephens, RN. Melbourne, December 1872.
Albumen print photograph in carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Barchelder & Co., Artist Photographers, 41 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and with a roughly contemporary inscription in ink ‘December 1872’; the print and the mount are both in good condition; the carte is accompanied by a section cut …
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# 50392
BOYD, Thomas H.
Portrait of J. J. Casey and another gentleman. Sydney, 1882.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 100 mm; verso of mount imprinted Boyd San Francisco Palace of Art 250 & 252 George Street, Sydney, and with an inscription (presumably) by one of the two sitters: ‘J. J. Casey & [xxxx], May 1882’; the albumen print is in superb condition; the mount is clean …
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# 43392
[Photographer unknown].
Daguerreotype of a smiling man wearing a flamboyant cravat, c.1855.
[USA : s.n., 1850-55]. Sixth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 68 x 54 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat, housed in a leather case with embossed geometric design, with a working brass clasp; the daguerreotype is in fine condition, as is the case. An unusually intimate and informal portrait for the period; the young gentleman’s …
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# 43393
[Photographer unknown].
Daguerreotype of a young woman posed beside a table with books, c.1855.
[USA : s.n., 1850-55]. Sixth-plate daguerreotype, 70 x 59 mm (sight), in a nonpareil brass mat, housed in a leather case with embossed floral design, with a working brass clasp; the daguerreotype has a very slight tarnish halo at lower edge, but is otherwise in fine condition; the case – which is type Berg 5-112 Floral (s) …
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# 43407
[Photographer unknown].
Ambrotype portrait of “Jake and Charles. Two old cronies – intimate friends … Who can deny that we are a happy pair when together.” Dated 15 September, 1862.
[USA : unknown photographer], September 1862. Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied colouring, 53 x 62 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat with a scrolling foliate motif, housed in a half leather case with embossed geometric design; a fully contemporary inscription in pencil to the paper lining the inside wall of the case reads: ‘Taken Sept. …