Photographs - Portraits
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# 45131
HAWLEY, Gideon Anson (aka Gedeon Andrés) (1829-1889)
Two rare cartes de visite by an American photographer working in Guatemala, 1863-64.
Two cartes de visite with uniform 101 x 61 mm mounts, each with four small head-and-shoulder portraits – one of men, the other of women; these all appear to be salt prints (not albumen prints), cut into oval format and mounted in an identical configuration on each carte; the versos have the same lithographed back …
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# 45020
A. KEN & CIE.
Studio portrait of the Vicomtesse de Courval (Mary Ray, an “American dollar princess”). Paris, early 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 98 x 61 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted ‘A. Ken & Cie., 10 Boulevard Montmartre 10’; verso inscribed in pencil in period and later hand ‘Madame de Courval’; both print and mount are in superb condition. The term “American dollar princesses” was coined to describe the wealthy …
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# 43389
ANSON, Rufus
Daguerreotype of a young boy standing near a plinth. New York, 1852-55.
Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 80 x 70 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat stamped ‘ANSON 589 / BROADWAY’; ormolu preserver; housed in a half leather case with floral motif; the daguerreotype is in fine condition.
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# 43391
ANSON, Rufus
Daguerreotype of a young woman in mourning dress. New York, circa 1855.
Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 80 x 70 mm (sight), in a nonpareil brass mat stamped ‘Anson / Broadway’, ormolu preserver; housed in a leather case with geometric and scrolling vine motif, the front with partially remnant early paper label with the name ‘[A]dams’ in manuscript; the case has a working clasp, and the …
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# 43388
ANSON, Rufus
Daguerreotype of a young woman in a tartan dress, with hands clasped. New York, 1852-55.
Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 80 x 70 mm (sight); in an oval brass mat stamped ‘ANSON 589 / BROADWAY’; ormolu preserver; housed in a leather case with geometric design (separated along the spine); a striking daguerreotype in fine condition. The sitter appears to be the same young woman from the Adams family who …
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# 43415
PORTER, William Southgate
Daguerreotype of a man with wavy hair. Cincinnati, early 1850s.
Quarter plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 110 x 80 mm (sight); in an oval brass mat stamped ‘W. S. PORTER / 4th & VINE, CINCINATTI’; ormolu preserver; housed in a thermoplastic case lined with crimson velvet (Berg 1-45 Lyre in Wide Portal 2 (S), engraved by R. Payne); the daguerreotype has some tiny mould spiders …
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# 43421
THOMPSON, Josiah W.
Daguerreotype of a young gentleman in a suit. New York, 1851-54.
Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 80 x 70 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat stamped ‘THOMPSON 315 B.WAY N.Y.’, ormolu preserver; housed in a leather case (Berg 4-46 Throwing Flowers C) with two working clasps; the red velvet lining has the raised imprint of ‘J. W. THOMPSON ARTIST 315 B.WAY NEW YORK’; the daguerreotype …
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# 44152
Photographer unknown
Members of the Ranken family at their homestead “Lockyersleigh”, near Goulburn, New South Wales, January 1901.
Ten printing-out-paper prints, taken with the same Kodak camera and in uniform 85 x 85 mm format; mounted on two album pages with manuscript title at head ‘Lockyersleigh, New South Wales’, and further captions naming the people in each photo and giving the date January 1901; the photos are all in good condition; the album …
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# 45016
GEORGE ROSE (MELBOURNE)
[MELBOURNE] A well-fed beggar.
[Title from printed caption]. Melbourne : George Rose, [between 1895 and 1900]. ‘Rose’s Stereoscopic Views, Australasian Series. Sold only by George Rose, Publisher, Melbourne’. Stereoscopic silver albumen print photograph, each individual image 85 x 70 mm, on board mount 89 x 177 mm, with the publisher’s imprint recto; printed caption and serial number ‘1853’ across …
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# 45130
[SHIRLOW, John 1869-1936]; SMITH, Julian 1873-1948
Photographic portrait of the artist John Shirlow.
[Circa 1931]. Gelatin silver print on textured paper, 390 x 310 mm, laid down on a contemporary mount of thick board, the print in fine condition (a tiny paper adhesion to lower edge). A superb portrait of the Melbourne artist John Shirlow – more noted for his etching than his painting – holding a brush and …
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# 43883
DEANS, F. R.
“A Little Colonial” named Lena, on roller skates. Boulder (Kalgoorlie), Western Australian goldfields, circa 1910.
Gelatin silver photograph, 134 x 84 mm, printed on Kodak Austral card stock; verso with the wet stamp of the photographer, ‘F. R. Deans, Boulder, W. A.’, and a handwritten Xmas/New Year message from Boulder resident “Edith” to her friend “Chrissie”, on behalf of “Lena” – presumably the young sitter in this extraordinary studio portrait, …
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# 35730
CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (publisher); FRITH, Henry Albert (active in Australia 1858-1867) (photographer, attributed)
Studio portrait of Pangernowidedic (Bessy Clarke), William Lanne, Trugernanner (Truganini), and Wapperty. Hobart Town, 1864.
[Copy print of a photograph taken in the studio of Henry Albert Frith in 1864]. Hobart : Samuel Clifford, [circa 1867]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 74 x 70 mm (arched-top format), on yellow card mount 84 x 175 mm; verso has printed label ‘Views in Tasmania. / S. Clifford, Photographer, Hobart Town’, with contemporary manuscript …
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# 44666
[Photographer unknown]
Ambrotype portrait of George West posing with a stock whip. Australia, late 1850s.
Ninth plate ambrotype photograph with applied colour, 53 x 40 mm (sight); housed in a brass mat with ormolu preserver, in a simple leather case with geometric design to front, which has a working clasp; the ambrotype is in fine condition; the original blue paper backing sheet bears a fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the …
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# 41682
[Photographer unknown]
Outdoor ambrotype of a man standing in a bush setting. South Australia, circa 1860.
Quarter plate ambrotype photograph, 110 x 80 mm; housed in original brass preserver, lacking a case; some loss of emulsion at the edges of the plate, scattered tiny marks and minor crazing; resealed. Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne; acquired from Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, New Haven, CT, USA, December 2009; evidently the ambrotype was resealed by …
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# 44823
ARCHER, David, Jnr. (1826-1910)
John Coc Coc Coine, King of the Warrions.
[Title from brass breast plate worn by the sitter]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount), verso with wet stamp of ‘David Archer, Photographic Artist, Colac’, and a later ownership inscription of ‘Mrs R. A. Bassett, 5 Gravesend St., Colac’; the print has some mottling in the negative, and a …
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# 43901
HETZER, William
Studio portrait of William Huon, pioneer squatter in the Riverina district. Sydney, March 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘W. Hetzer’s Photographic Gallery, 287, George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.’, and a fully contemporary inscription in ink, identifying the sitter: ‘W. Huon Esq., Wodonga, March 1866’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. William Huon (Campbelltown 1825 – …