Photographs - Portraits

  • Studio portrait of two fashionable young women. Echuca, northern Victoria, circa 1875.

    # 35787

    KENDALL, George Henry

    Studio portrait of two fashionable young women. Echuca, northern Victoria, circa 1875.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); verso with decorative sepia back mark of ‘G.H. Kendall, Photographer, High Street, Echuca’; the print has a few tiny surface marks but is otherwise in fine condition; the mount is very clean. A beautifully composed portrait study of two young women – possibly …

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  • Tinted studio portrait of a girl cradling her doll. Sydney, late 1870s.

    # 35803

    NEWMAN, J. (John) Hubert (1830-1916)

    Tinted studio portrait of a girl cradling her doll. Sydney, late 1870s.

    Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount), verso with imprint of J. Hubert Newman, Photographer, Oil and Crayon Painter etc., No. 12 Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Sydney, N.S.W.; the print and mount are both in excellent condition.

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  • Photographic portrait of John Pascoe Fawkner

    # 16374

    GLENNY, Henry; [CHUCK, Thomas Foster]

    Photographic portrait of John Pascoe Fawkner

    [Circa 1870]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount), recto and verso with imprint of ‘H. Glenny, Dublin and Melbourne Portrait Rooms, Main Road, Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia’, the posthumously published albumen print taken from the original image by Melbourne photographer Thomas Foster Chuck; in fine condition. John Pascoe Fawkner …

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  • Studio portrait of British artist John Gilbert (1817-1897). London, late 1860s.

    # 35334

    ELLIOTT & FRY

    Studio portrait of British artist John Gilbert (1817-1897). London, late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); recto and verso with the imprint of Elliott & Fry, 55 Baker Street, Portman Square; verso also has a pencilled inscription in period hand ‘John Gilbert’; in superb condition. An outstanding example of what is arguably the finest photographic portrait of the illustrator and painter Sir …

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  • Signed photograph of Australian escapologist and illusionist, Murray, dated 1944.

    # 35476

    [WALTERS, Norman Murray Carrington, 1901-1988]

    Signed photograph of Australian escapologist and illusionist, Murray, dated 1944.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, 139 x 89 mm, signed in ink across the lower section of the image ‘Best wishes, Murray, Escapologist, 1944’; verso addressed to a young fan in Grantham, Lincolnshire, with 2d stamp and postmark dated Manchester 13 April 1944; in excellent condition. ‘Norman Murray Carrington Walters (11 November 1901 – 22 January 1988), …

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  • [CIRCUS HISTORY] Mr. Fred Lindsay

    # 35471

    WILLS (CARDIFF)

    [CIRCUS HISTORY] Mr. Fred Lindsay

    [Circa 1910]. Photolithographic postcard, 137 x 87 mm, printed caption beneath image; original signature in ink of ‘Fred Lindsay’ across the lower section of the image; verso with the imprint of the photographer and publisher ‘Wills, Photo., Cardiff’; in excellent condition. ‘Fred Lindsay’ was the stage name of Bendigo-born and Wesley College (Melbourne) educated stock whip …

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  • Portrait of a young woman wearing a butterfly hair bow. Australia, circa 1910.

    # 34136

    Photographer unknown.

    Portrait of a young woman wearing a butterfly hair bow. Australia, circa 1910.

    Gelatin silver print photograph on Kodak Austral postcard stock, 138 x 88 mm; no studio information, verso uninscribed; the portrait is integral to the coloured rose border (i.e. both must have been re-photographed from a composite image); in very good condition. A beautiful Australian late-Edwardian fashion shot. The woman is holding a rolled-up magazine, possibly so as …

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  • Studio portrait of an Aboriginal woman wearing a kangaroo skin cloak, carrying her young child on her back. Adelaide, 1869-75.

    # 34936

    [VON HARTITZSCH, Otto] or [SOLOMON, Saul]

    Studio portrait of an Aboriginal woman wearing a kangaroo skin cloak, carrying her young child on her back. Adelaide, 1869-75.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 85 x 56 mm; unmounted; a strong print with excellent clarity, in very good condition. Another example of this carte de visite, on a mount bearing the imprint of Otto Von Hartitzsch & Co., 113 Rundle Street, Adelaide, was sold at Charles Leski Auctions (Melbourne) in September 2010. …

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  • Tinted studio portrait of an adolescent. Hobart Town, Tasmania, 1874-75.

    # 34406

    WINTER, Alfred (1837-1911)

    Tinted studio portrait of an adolescent. Hobart Town, Tasmania, 1874-75.

    Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount), verso with decorative back mark surmounted by the Australian coat of arms and worded ‘Photographed by Alfred Winter, 19 Elizabeth Street, Hobart Town. Established in Melbourne 8 years.’; the print is in good condition; the mount has a sprinkling of light …

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  • [TASMANIA] A daguerreotype portrait of a woman wearing a bonnet and Paisley pattern dress, identified as "Mary Ann Fielding of Australia"

    # 15724

    Photographer unknown.

    [TASMANIA] A daguerreotype portrait of a woman wearing a bonnet and Paisley pattern dress, identified as “Mary Ann Fielding of Australia”

    [Australia? : s.n., circa 1860]. Ninth plate daguerreotype, exposed image 56 x 43 mm, still sealed in its original pressed copper mat and frame, 71 x 55 mm; verso with the original leather backing inscribed in an early twentieth century hand ‘Mary Ann Fielding of Australia. Mother’s namesake’; original string for suspension; the daguerreotype is intact, with scattered tarnishing beneath the cover …

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  • Portrait of Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of South Australia, circa 1875.

    # 34367

    NIESCHE, Charles (publisher); DURYEA, Townsend, (photographer)

    Portrait of Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of South Australia, circa 1875.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 60 mm (mount); captioned in the image ‘Sir Anthony Musgrave / Melbourne copy’; verso with the lithographed back mark of ‘C. Niesche, Photographer and Picture Frame Manufacturer, 97 Rundle St., Adelaide’; in good, clean condition; the corners of the mount have been trimmed so the carte …

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  • [AUSTRALIAN THEATRE] Julius Knight as "Raffles"

    # 34533

    Publisher unknown. [E. W. HORNUNG]

    [AUSTRALIAN THEATRE] Julius Knight as “Raffles”

    [Australia : s.n., probably 1907]. Photographic postcard, 86 x 137 mm, captioned in the negative ‘Julius Knight as “Raffles”‘; verso imprinted ‘Post Card’ and ‘Julius Knight Series’; unused, in fine condition. The Scottish thespian Julius Knight (born James Dickson Kirkpatrick, 1862-1941) visited Australasia under the management of entrepreneur J. C. Williamson four times between 1897 …

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  • A woman and her dog posing in front of a kangaroo-skin backdrop. Goulburn, New South Wales, circa 1905.

    # 34107

    Photographer unknown. [KINGSMILL, Charles, Rev. Canon]

    A woman and her dog posing in front of a kangaroo-skin backdrop. Goulburn, New South Wales, circa 1905.

    Silver gelatin print photograph, 65 x 100 mm; printed on postcard stock (89 x 139 mm); a brief message in ink on the front of the card – no doubt in the hand of the woman in the photograph – reads: ‘I find I can’t get round this evening. So sorry – love, A. S.’; …

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  • Child Studies no. 11

    # 34222

    KERRY & CO.

    Child Studies no. 11

    Sydney, NSW : Kerry & Co., [c.1905]. “Series 62”. Chromolithographic postcard, 140 x 90 mm; in the image are the series title and number and the imprint of photographer and publisher Kerry & Co; verso with handwritten message; mailed from Boolaroo (Newcastle) to Granville (Sydney), 1d New South Wales stamp with postmark dated May 18 1912; …

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  • Studio portrait of Lieutenant Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa of HMS Clio, Flagship of the Pacific Station. Sydney, 1872.

    # 34174

    FREEMAN, William (1809–1895)

    Studio portrait of Lieutenant Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa of HMS Clio, Flagship of the Pacific Station. Sydney, 1872.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); recto with a fully contemporary caption in ink beneath the image: ‘Fredk. Metaxa’; verso imprinted ‘Freeman, late Oswald Allen. Artist Photographer. Crayon & Miniature Painter. 360 George Street, Sydney. Terms Cash on Delivery. Photographer by Appointment to His Excellency the Governor’; the print has …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Australian District Officers Linehan and Ryan with local "workboys", Manus Island (former German New Guinea), circa 1916.

    # 33738

    Photographer unknown.

    [NEW GUINEA] Australian District Officers Linehan and Ryan with local “workboys”, Manus Island (former German New Guinea), circa 1916.

    Two sepia tone gelatin silver print photographs on card stock, in identical 88 x 140 mm format, one with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil verso ‘W. O. Linehan, Lt. Ryan & some native workboys at Manus’; both in excellent condition. In 1916 Australian soldiers Warrant Officer N. C. Linehan and Lieutenant Harold Ryan were …

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