Photographs - Portraits

  • Studio portrait of Melanesian missionary John Richardson Selwyn. Auckland, New Zealand, early 1870s.

    # 33507

    PULMAN'S PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO [PULMAN, Elizabeth]

    Studio portrait of Melanesian missionary John Richardson Selwyn. Auckland, New Zealand, early 1870s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount), recto of mount imprinted in bottom margin ‘Photographed by G. Pulman [i.e. Elizabeth Pulman], Auckland’; verso blank; both the albumen print and the mount are in very good condition. ‘John Richardson Selwyn (1844-1898) was an Anglican priest who became the second Bishop of Melanesia and then the second Master of Selwyn …

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  • Studio portrait of a family with their sleeping pet puppy. Southwell, Nottinghamshire, circa 1890.

    # 33023

    HITCHCOCK, H. J. (Henry Jonathan)

    Studio portrait of a family with their sleeping pet puppy. Southwell, Nottinghamshire, circa 1890.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 106 mm (mount), recto imprinted in gilt ‘Walter Barrett, Southwell’; verso with superb pictorial back mark worded ‘From the Studio of Walter Barrett, Southwell, Notts. Designer, Photographic Artist, Chromolithographer’; the print has some very light mottling in the negative, but is otherwise in excellent condition and very sharp; …

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  • [MELBOURNE] Staff, Lanes Motors Pty. Ltd., June 1924.

    # 33439

    ADAMSON, T. G.

    [MELBOURNE] Staff, Lanes Motors Pty. Ltd., June 1924.

    [Title from caption in image]. Gelatin silver print photograph, panoramic format 100 x 320 mm; laid down on its original board mount, 250 x 455 mm, signed by the photographer lower right ‘T. G. Adamson Photo.’; the print has a few light surface marks and some fading and scattered ink spots at bottom right corner; …

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  • Studio portraits of five officers of the Russian naval corvette "Boyarin". Hobart, May-June 1870.

    # 33114

    SPURLING, Stephen (1821-1892); BAILY, Henry Hall (1839-1896)

    Studio portraits of five officers of the Russian naval corvette “Boyarin”. Hobart, May-June 1870.

    Five albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, mount sizes 101 x 63 mm (1) and 105 x 63 mm (4); one with the back mark of H. H. Baily, Hobart and four with the back mark of S. Spurling, Hobart; the versos have fully contemporary inscriptions written in ink or pencil, identifying the …

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  • Studio portrait of a young boy and his Jack Russell dog. Leicester, 1890s.

    # 33022

    HITCHCOCK, H. J. (Henry Jonathan)

    Studio portrait of a young boy and his Jack Russell dog. Leicester, 1890s.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 162 x 105 mm (mount), recto imprinted in gilt ‘H. J. Hitchcock, Lawn Studio, 64 Sparkenhoe St., Leicester’; the print has lovely dark tones and is in excellent condition (a tiny amount of surface rubbing).

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  • During the advance on Salamaua Sergeant Gordon Raymond Charles Ayre MM ... in pouring rain assists a wounded mate, Private William Oswald Wallace Johnson....

    # 33027

    PARER, Damien Peter (1912-1944)

    During the advance on Salamaua Sergeant Gordon Raymond Charles Ayre MM … in pouring rain assists a wounded mate, Private William Oswald Wallace Johnson….

    [New Guinea, 1943]. Black-and-white press photograph on glossy paper, 205 x 295 mm, with editor’s markings by a staff member of the San Francisco Examiner (?); verso with pasted-on cutting from the newspaper issue in which it was printed (with Associated Press Wirephoto credit), stamped Oct 23 1943, below it the wet stamp ‘Received Examiner Reference Library Oct …

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  • Studio portrait of Madame Majeroni in costume as Mary Stuart. Melbourne, circa 1890.

    # 31795

    STEWART & CO.

    Studio portrait of Madame Majeroni in costume as Mary Stuart. Melbourne, circa 1890.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 164 x 106 mm (mount); recto of mount with gilt imprint of ‘Stewart & Co., 40 & 42 Bourke St., East, near Parliament House, Melbourne’; verso blank; both the print and mount are in fine condition. A rare potograph of the Italian tragic actress Madame Majeroni (née Giulia Tessero: …

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  • Two men in staged combat. Brisbane, late 1860s.

    # 32412

    WATSON, John (attributed)

    Two men in staged combat. Brisbane, late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 82 x 58 mm, mounted on section of a nineteenth-century album page; the print is in fine condition, and the mount is free from foxing. Although Thomas Bevan, Daniel Marquis and Samuel Duesbury were also taking studio photographs of indigenous subjects in Brisbane during the 1860s and early …

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  • Vignette portrait of a woman. Adelaide, circa 1864.

    # 31934

    FREEMAN, George John

    Vignette portrait of a woman. Adelaide, circa 1864.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Geo. J. Freeman, Photographist. 97, Hindley Street, Adelaide, S. A.’; both print and mount are in very good condition. A rare early example of a carte de visite studio portrait by George J. Freeman. From Gael Newton’s excellent …

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  • Studio portrait of a man holding a felt hat. Brisbane, circa 1865.

    # 32293

    WATSON, John

    Studio portrait of a man holding a felt hat. Brisbane, circa 1865.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘J. Watson, Photographic Artist. Queen Street, Brisbane’; both the albumen print and mount are in very good condition. A full-length portrait of a man – quite possibly a farmer – standing a little awkwardly and holding his soft felt …

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  • Studio portrait of George Bennett, stage actor. Ballarat, October 1869.

    # 32373

    BARDWELL, William (1836-1929)

    Studio portrait of George Bennett, stage actor. Ballarat, October 1869.

    Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, cabinet card format, 160 x 120 mm; recto with gilt border and imprint in lower margin ‘Cabinet Portrait. From Bardwell’s Royal Studio, Ballarat.’; verso with the sitter’s inscription in ink ‘George Bennett, Oct. 1869, Ballaarat, Australia’; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. A magnificent hand-coloured studio …

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  • Studio portrait of Aretas William Charles Young dressed as a Native American. Adelaide, late 1870s.

    # 32126

    MANNING, Charles H.

    Studio portrait of Aretas William Charles Young dressed as a Native American. Adelaide, late 1870s.

    Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, cabinet card format, 165 x 109 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘C. H. Manning, Late T. Duryea, 66 & 68 King William Street, Adelaide. Prize Medal, Universal Exhibition 1867’, and inscription in blue ink in a nineteenth-century hand ‘Aretas William Charles Young, son of Sir Henry Fox Young’; …

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  • Policeman, Bendigo, early 1880s.

    # 31814

    DE KOCK, Frederick A.

    Policeman, Bendigo, early 1880s.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 108 mm (mount), recto and verso with imprint of Bendigo Portrait Rooms, F. De Kock & Co., Photographic Artists, Corner of Mitchell and King Streets’; the print and mount are both in fine condition. A rare 1880s portrait of a uniformed member of the Victoria Police – …

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  • Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W.

    # 32085

    KING, Henry (1855-1923)

    Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W.

    [Between 1890 and 1900]. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 150 mm, in manuscript in the negative at bottom left ‘481. Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W. / H. King Photo.’; verso with wet stamp of ‘Tost & Rohu, Furriers, Tanners, Naturalists, Taxidermists. Sydney, Aus.’; an exceptionally strong print with excellent clarity, but foxed and with some very light …

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  • Wedding of Henry McRae and Lizzie Hamilton at Coranderrk Reserve, near Healesville, 25 August 1909.

    # 25732

    J. & O. H. KERCHAVAL

    Wedding of Henry McRae and Lizzie Hamilton at Coranderrk Reserve, near Healesville, 25 August 1909.

    Silver gelatin photograph printed on card stock, 87 x 138 mm, titled in manuscript in negative ‘McWrae [sic] Hamilton Wedding Coranderrk / Healesville’; verso with photographer/publishers’ imprint ‘J. & O. H. Kercheval, Healesville’ and Kodak Austral box, with handwritten message by a resident of “Carinya, Healesville” containing a racist comment about the wedding party in …

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  • Batman's Treaty with the Blacks, 1835

    # 31769

    FRAZER & VALLANCE

    Batman’s Treaty with the Blacks, 1835

    [Title from caption on banner in image]. Melbourne : Frazer & Vallance, [probably 1910]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 100 x 155 mm, laid down on its original board mount ,120 x 165 mm, with the studio imprint in black across the lower margin; verso blank; the print is in good condition with great clarity and …

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