Photographs - Portraits
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# 50410
COX, Arthur James
Four Waimate councillors posing in their Oldsmobile after completing the first journey by motor car over Burkes Pass, 1904.
Bromide print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, on original board mount, 250 x 300 mm, bearing the blind stamp of ‘Cox / Waimate’ in the lower right margin, and an indistinct manuscript caption in white ink beneath the image; the print is in excellent condition, the mount with minor corner wear and a small mark …
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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. …
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# 43390
[Photographer unknown].
Daguerreotype of a seated young woman wearing spectacles, c.1855.
[USA : s.n., 1850-55]. Sixth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 68 x 57 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 tarnish halo at left and lower edges, but is otherwise in fine condition; the case has only light wear …
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# 50334
SOLOMON & BARDWELL
Studio portrait of a young woman holding a carte de visite album, her white gloves placed in a wire “glove basket”. Ballarat, Victorian goldfields, c.1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 94 x 64 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Solomon & Bardwell, Photographers, Ballarat’ contemporary inscription in ink: ‘M. Strack’; the print has some mottling in the negative and some very light creasing at left edge.
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# 50314
HART, Elijah
Portrait of Cyrus William Doyle, son of pioneer Hunter Valley pastoralist Edmund Doyle. West Maitland, New South Wales, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Elijah Hart, Photographic Artist, High Street, West Maitland, N.S.W.’, and a full contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Cyrus’; the vignetted portrait has some light marks that are mostly confined to the edges of the print. We believe the sitter to …
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# 47232
FREEMAN BROTHERS
Daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman. Sydney, c.1855.
Sixth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 70 x 58 mm (sight); in a square brass mat with arch-top window; housed in a full leather case with the gilt-stamped crest of the photographers ‘FREEMAN BROTHERS / SYDNEY’ to verso, and with two working brass clasps; the daguerreotype is in excellent condition (a few specks of dust underneath …
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# 41553
TUTTLE & CO.
Photographic portrait of Australian professional rower William “Bill” Beach, unbeaten as World Sculling Champion 1884-87. Sydney, c.1884.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘Tuttle & Co., Corner of George & Market Sts., Sydney’; verso with advertisement for the New York Tailoring Company, 667 George Street, Haymarket; print with pale foxing, mount a little darkened from handling otherwise very good. William Beach …
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# 45624
EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS
Wedding cake. Sydney, 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 109 mm (mount); recto of mount with the embossed imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in excellent condition; the mount has some minor foxing. A studio “portrait” with an uncommon subject.
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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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# 43366
[Photographer unknown].
Daguerreotype of a mother and young child, late 1850s.
[UK or Australia : s.n., 1855-59]. Quarter-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 90 x 66 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat, housed in a half case with embossed floral design; the daguerreotype has a slight tarnish halo, and some tiny mould spiders beneath the cover glass, but is otherwise in very good condition – an …
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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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# 43417
Photographer unknown
Ambrotype of two adolescent sisters, c.1860.
[USA : s.n., c.1860]. Quarter-plate ambrotype with applied colour, 93 x 67 mm (sight), in an elliptical brass mat, housed in a full leather case with embossed floral design, with two working brass claps; the ambrotype is in fine condition, the case is lightly marked.
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# 43412
[Photographer unknown].
Ambrotype of a young girl seated in a chair, her hands clasped. Early 1860s.
[USA : s.n., 1860-65]. Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied colour, 66 x 55 mm (sight), in a nonpareil brass matt, housed in full leather case with embossed geometric design, working brass clasp; both the ambrotype and case are in fine condition.
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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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# 49855
DOBBYN, Tim
Black, White and Colour. (Standard edition, signed by the photographer and the author)
Melbourne : Ginninderra Press, 2025. ISBN 9781761097089. Quarto, hardcover, 207 pages; offset printed on ivory silk paper for superior image reproduction and touch. Designed and typeset by Isambard Thomas. This biography of one of Australia’s treasured artists offers an intimate portrait of the struggles and triumphs of Mervyn Bishop, Australia’s ground-breaking Indigenous photographer. Born in Brewarrina …