Photographs - Portraits
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# 28091
[THOMSON, John (1837-1921) (photographer) and Adolphe Smith HEADINGLEY (1846-1924)]
Street Incidents : a series of twenty-one permanent photographs, with descriptive letter-press.
London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher’s pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black (boards with light staining and flecking, spine sunned and flecked, text block a little sprung), original patterned endpapers, pp [2], [1]-100, with 21 original woodburytypes from Thomson’s original dry-plate negatives, each with …
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# 18893
[JAMAR, Jacques]; [COMET, Rita]
Photograph album containing portraits of a Belgian Lazarist missionary to China, and including a group of late Qing traditional paper and silk Chinese dolls. Circa 1903-1964
Photograph album, circa 1900. Small oblong quarto (165 x 235 mm), half morocco with ornamental gilt rule over faux crocodile papered boards, original floral-patterned lining papers, front pastedown with binder’s ticket of bookseller and stationer Gilon, Verviers (Belgium); [20] leaves of thick card, containing 4 cabinet card format portrait photographs of Lazarist missionary Father Jacques …
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# 36955
WEBB & SON
A pair of husband and wife carte de visite portraits housed in a double union case. Launceston, Tasmania, late 1860s.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, mounts trimmed to 75 x 60 mm (approx.), both with the identical back mark of Webb & Son, St. John Street, Launceston, Tasmania, mounted under glass in their original oval-shaped brass mats within octagonal gilt brass foil preservers (spots of verdigris to the mats, otherwise both in …
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# 39166
BARNES, J. E.
Rev. Canon Long, M.A., Bishop elect of Bathurst, N.S.W.
[Title from handwritten caption in negative]. Kew (Vic.) : J. E. Barnes, Photo., [ca. September, 1911]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 138 x 86 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; left edge a little roughened from where the photo was removed from an album mount, otherwise good condition. George Merrick Long (1874-1930), CBE, Anglican bishop …
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![Studio portrait of Nellie Handfield, aged 11 years. Melbourne, 1875; [together with] a second portrait of Nellie around the age of 3, taken in Williamstown, circa 1867.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/03/2023_DSFB_1543-300x300.jpg)
# 39277
CHUCK, Thomas Foster; RIDER, Andrew
Studio portrait of Nellie Handfield, aged 11 years. Melbourne, 1875; [together with] a second portrait of Nellie around the age of 3, taken in Williamstown, circa 1867.
I. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘T. F. Chuck, Photographer to His Excellency the Governor, the Trustees of the National Gallery, and Prize Medalist, London Exhibition 1874. Royal Arcade, London Portrait Gallery, Melbourne’, and with a fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the …
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# 39461
BOSTON & BARKER
Studio portrait of a young boy wearing an embroidered jacket. Yass (or Burrowa, or Young), New South Wales, 1868 or 1869.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Boston & Barker, Artist Photographers’; some scattered light foxing, else very good condition; the mount is clean and stable. A rare example of a carte de visite studio portrait taken by travelling professional photographers who were only briefly …
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# 39425
BROWN, BARNES & BELL
Jumbo II. The Largest Animal on the Face of the Earth. From Wm. Cross’s Zoological Establishment, Liverpool.
[1882 or 1883]. Woodburytpe photograph, carte de visite format, 66 x 102 mm (mount); recto with printed caption and the imprint of Brown, Barnes & Bell (Liverpool); verso with printed statistical information about Jumbo II, written by the elephant’s owner, the animal dealer and entrepreneur William Cross, headed ‘The Talk of England, The Rage of …
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# 39428
MARCHANT, Philip James (1846-1910)
Two portraits of elderly couples, one taken in a garden, the other in the studio. Gawler, South Australia, late 1890s.
I. Couple seated in a garden. Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 112 mm; recto of round-cornered mount with silver-embossed imprint of ‘Marchant’s Studio, Gawler, S.A.’; verso blank; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. II. Couple in a studio with elaborate painted backdrop. Gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet …
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![[ROWING; OXFORD UNIVERSITY] The Queen's "Torpid", 1879.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2023/02/08121009/2023_DSFB_0577-300x300.jpg)
# 38841
Photographer unknown.
[ROWING; OXFORD UNIVERSITY] The Queen’s “Torpid”, 1879.
Albumen print photograph, in very large format 210 x 267 mm, unmounted; verso with period inscription in pencil: ‘Queens Torpid / 1879’ and negative number ‘30,739’; the print has excellent clarity and tonal range, and apart from some fading around the edges is in fine condition. A significantly early – and quite possibly unique – …
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# 38749
Photographer unknown.
High tea in the garden. Australia, circa 1905.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 80 x 150 mm, laid down on its original green board mount.; no photographer’s imprint; inscribed verso: ‘Dear Maggie, this is [….] you & Maby ought to have been in ….’; the print has superb clarity and is in fine condition, as is the mount. An amazing Australian vernacular photograph from …
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# 37852
LINDT, J. W. (John William) (1845-1926)
Studio portrait of a gentleman. Melbourne, circa 1888. (With Lindt’s “View of Government House” back mark).
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (165 x 110 mm), verso with Lindt’s illustrated advertisement for his studio at 7 Collins Street East, with a superb lithographic view of Melbourne’s Government House seen from the Botanic Gardens at centre, and below it a cartouche listing Lindt’s major portfolios (Album of Australian Aboriginals; Characteristic Australian Forest …
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# 37616
ROBERTS, J. H.
Tinted studio portrait of a champion athlete with his prizes. Ballarat, Victoria, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of ‘J. H. Roberts, Photographer, Sturt St., Ballarat’ surmounted by the royal coat of arms and ‘By Appointment’; print and mount are in superb condition. A strikingly tinted studio portrait of a competitive athlete posing …
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# 36836
[VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS]
Images of Australian womanhood, 1910-1925 : fifty photographic portraits of women by Australian studios.
Group of 50 (fifty) gelatin silver print photographs, all printed on postcard stock (as was customary in this period) in uniform format 140 x 90 mm (approximate); 49/50 have studio imprints, and in some cases the sitters are identified on the back; a couple with corner wear and one with light marks, but overall the …
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# 37504
FALK STUDIO
Studio portrait of New Zealand-Australian boxer Otto Cribb. Sydney, circa 1901.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 108 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘FALK / 496 George Street, Sydney’; verso with wet stamp of Melbourne print, postcard and photograph seller W. H. Cooper, Royal Arcade; the albumen print is in good condition; the mount is chipped at two corners, but is …
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![[EUREKA REBELLION] Portrait of Peter Lalor, M.L.A.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/09/29164850/2022_DSFB_5882.jpg)
# 37108
Photographer unknown
[EUREKA REBELLION] Portrait of Peter Lalor, M.L.A.
[Title from printed caption beneath image]. Albumen print photograph, 90 x 60 mm, mounted on the recto of a leaf removed (by a previous owner!) from one of only 100 copies of W. B. Withers’ History of Ballarat which were extra-illustrated with mounted photographs; dimensions of leaf 212 x 132 mm; in fine condition. A rare …
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# 37694
TAYLOR, J. (James)
Benny Roy’s camp, Worturpa. (Aboriginal miner).
[Title from printed caption in lower margin]. [Published ca. 1900; the original photograph may have been taken as early as ca. 1890]. Collotype process print with hand colouring,145 x 225 mm (image), on sheet 270 x 370 mm; lower margin of sheet with imprint of ‘J. Taylor, Collotype, Adelaide, S. A.’ and printed caption in …