Photographs - Portraits

  • Tinted studio portrait of a young woman. Melbourne, late 1860s.

    # 40371

    MILLER, Thomas

    Tinted studio portrait of a young woman. Melbourne, late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 102 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Thos. Miller, Photographic Artist, 98 1/2 Swanston Street, Near Little Bourke St., Melbourne.’; both the print and mount are in very good condition. From an Australian carte de visite album that belonged to Claude Thomas …

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  • Provocateuse. Rockhampton, Queensland, March 1926.

    # 41127

    FREMLIN, Frank

    Provocateuse. Rockhampton, Queensland, March 1926.

    Gelatin silver print, 103 x 80 mm; inscribed in ink by the photographer across the bottom margin: Rockhampton March 1926′; verso stamped ‘Kodak Print’; very good condition. This risque snap came from an album belonging to Frank Fremlin, a member of the Palermo-Chefalo magic troupe that visited Australia in 1926.

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  • Studio portrait of a soldier wearing the uniform of a colonial regiment. St. Kilda, Melbourne, late 1860s.

    # 40384

    VAN BERCKELAER, Isadore

    Studio portrait of a soldier wearing the uniform of a colonial regiment. St. Kilda, Melbourne, late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto and verso imprinted ‘I. Van Berckelaer High Street St. Kilda’; both the print and mount in excellent condition. A full-length portrait of a soldier in the uniform of the Victorian Military Forces. Under magnification, he is clearly wearing the VMF belt buckle with crown at centre …

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  • Studio portrait of a girl in white, turning the pages of a photograph album. Melbourne, circa 1870.

    # 40443

    JOHNSTONE, O'SHANESSY & CO.

    Studio portrait of a girl in white, turning the pages of a photograph album. Melbourne, circa 1870.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm; recto imprinted in bottom margin ‘Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co. / Next the Post Office, Melbourne’; verso blank; the print is in excellent condition (some mottling in the negative), as is the mount. Lovely full-length portrait of a young girl posed beside a secretaire. The …

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  • Studio portrait of a young woman in Swiss(?) ethnic costume. Prahran, Melbourne, circa 1885.

    # 41219

    YEOMAN & CO.

    Studio portrait of a young woman in Swiss(?) ethnic costume. Prahran, Melbourne, circa 1885.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); recto imprinted ‘Yeoman & Co., 47 Chapel Street, Prahran’; verso blank; in excellent condition.

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  • A tame kookaburra.

    # 40546

    Photographer unknown.

    A tame kookaburra.

    [Victoria, between 1900 and 1910]. Stereoscopic silver albumen print photograph, each individual image 80 x 80 mm, on plain grey board mount, 101 x 173 mm, uninscribed; in fine condition. Amateur stereoview of a tame kookaburra charming a woman in her backyard. This was sourced along with a group of anonymous Federation-era stereoviews taken in Melbourne …

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  • [FIJI] Studio portrait of a man known as "Cannibal Tom". Suva, 1906.

    # 41367

    LE FAIVRE, O. J.

    [FIJI] Studio portrait of a man known as “Cannibal Tom”. Suva, 1906.

    Printing-out-paper print photograph, 202 x 150 mm; inscribed in negative ‘Protected / O. J. Le Faivre 19.11.06’; verso with oval wet stamp worded ‘More copies of this / Photo can be had from / Le Faivres Art Studioes [sic] / SUVA, FIJI’; superb clarity and tonal range; a couple of nicks to the left-hand edge …

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  • Studio portrait of a Private in the Victorian Regular Infantry. Melbourne, circa 1888.

    # 41383

    HOOPER, James

    Studio portrait of a Private in the Victorian Regular Infantry. Melbourne, circa 1888.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 110 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘West End Portrait Parlors, 112 & 114 Victoria Street, West Melbourne. James Hooper, Proprietor.’; a strong print in good condition (some surface scratches in the bottom right corner); the mount is a little darkened from handling. This colonial …

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  • Aboriginal man in a fighting stance, with parrying shield, club and boomerang.

    # 41372

    KING, Henry (1855-1923)

    Aboriginal man in a fighting stance, with parrying shield, club and boomerang.

    [Between 1890 and 1900]. Albumen print photograph, 205 x 155 mm; in manuscript in the negative at bottom left ‘624. Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W. / H. King Photo., Syd.’; mounted recto of its original 19th-century album leaf (the leaf has been professionally “split”); in very good condition. Unfortunately this image bears one of Henry King’s characteristically generic …

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] Cricket team from Pukeuri, north of Oamaru, Otago, circa 1900.

    # 41392

    Photographer unknown.

    [NEW ZEALAND] Cricket team from Pukeuri, north of Oamaru, Otago, circa 1900.

    Sepia-toned gelatin silver print photograph, 150 x 200 mm; laid down on its original board mount with decorative lithographic border; verso with an inscription in fountain pen in a later hand headed ‘Pukeuri Cricket Team’ and identifying the XI by name (plus two others); the print has beautiful tones and excellent clarity, and is in …

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  • Studio portrait of a woman in Salvation Army uniform. Latrobe, Tasmania, circa 1890.

    # 41085

    MARCHANT, Phillip James

    Studio portrait of a woman in Salvation Army uniform. Latrobe, Tasmania, circa 1890.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 112 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of ‘Marchant & Co., Photographic Studio, Latrobe, Tasmania’; a strong print in excellent condition; the mount has some light handling marks.

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  • Signed photographic portrait of the artist John Shirlow

    # 40640

    [SHIRLOW, John 1869-1936]; MONTEATH STUDIO

    Signed photographic portrait of the artist John Shirlow

    Circa 1913. Carbon print photograph, 130 x 100 mm, laid down on board mount with imprint of Monteath, Melb., inscribed on mount ‘To R.H. Croll with sincere regards, John Shirlow. Octr. 1913‘, the carbon print in fine condition (one tiny blemish at upper left edge), the mount with some very light foxing scattered across the …

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  • Signed photographic portrait of the artist John Shirlow

    # 40641

    [SHIRLOW, John 1869-1936]; SMITH, Julian 1873-1948

    Signed photographic portrait of the artist John Shirlow

    Circa 1935. Gelatin silver print, 300 x 230 mm, laid down on a contemporary mount of thick board, signed at lower right Shirlow Jany. 1935, the print in fine condition, some mild wear in the lower right corner. A fine portrait of the Melbourne artist John Shirlow, taken in the last year of his life by Dr. …

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  • Signed portrait photograph of the Rev. George Fairfowl Macarthur, first Rector of St. Mark's, Darling Point and Headmaster of The King's School, Parramatta. Sydney, late 1860s.

    # 40078

    FREEMAN & PROUT

    Signed portrait photograph of the Rev. George Fairfowl Macarthur, first Rector of St. Mark’s, Darling Point and Headmaster of The King’s School, Parramatta. Sydney, late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm; signed in ink by the sitter ‘Yrs. faithfully Geo: F: Macarthur’; verso with the imprint of ‘Freeman & Prout, Photographers to Their Royal Highnesses The Prince & Princess of Wales & His Excellency the Governor, Sydney’; Rare portrait photograph – signed – of the …

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  • Studio portrait of a young woman, possibly of Polynesian heritage. Melbourne, circa 1890.

    # 40114

    STEWART & CO.

    Studio portrait of a young woman, possibly of Polynesian heritage. Melbourne, circa 1890.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 113 mm (gilt-edged mount), recto of mount with imprint of ‘Stewart & Co., 42 Bourke St. East, Melbourne’; the original decorative tissue guard is still attached at top edge; the print and mount are in superb condition, while the tissue guard has a few spots of foxing, but …

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  • Studio portrait of a young woman graduate of the University of Sydney, circa 1895.

    # 40079

    THE SWISS STUDIOS

    Studio portrait of a young woman graduate of the University of Sydney, circa 1895.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 117 mm (mount); the print is blind-stamped ‘The Swiss Studios / Sydney’ at bottom right; recto of mount with gilt imprint of ‘The Swiss Studios, 117 King St., Sydney’, and with the studio monogram in gilt and red bottom right; a beautiful print, in superb condition; the mount is …

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