Photographs - Portraits
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# 43634
Photographer unknown.
Ambrotype portrait of Lady Susannah Wilson (Edmeades) Hindmarsh, wife of the first Governor of South Australia, Sir John Hindmarsh. Taken in England, circa 1856; reframed in Melbourne, 1859.
Quarter-plate ambrotype (wet collodion positive on glass), 100 x 80 mm (sight), in a paper and card mount with oval inset, housed within a colonial gilded timber wall frame with original cover glass (95 x 170 mm); the paper on the back of the frame with an inscription in ink in a refined hand identifying …
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# 46152
DURYEA, Townsend, junior
Four studio portraits of a vaudeville performer named Jessie. Adelaide, late 1890s.
Four albumen print photographs, cabinet card format, 161 x 103 mm (mounts); rectos all with the embossed silver imprint of ‘T. Duryea, 51 Rundle Street, Adelaide’; to the verso of one is a dedication inscription in ink written by the sitter which has been scratched out (possibly by a jealous later partner?), of which we …
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# 45903
SWISS STUDIOS
Studio portrait of Ada Evans, the first Australian woman to obtain a law degree and the first woman admitted to the Bar in New South Wales. Sydney, circa 1905.
Gelatin silver print photograph, oval Paris Panel format, 190 x 140 mm, on the original card mount with the blind stamp of Swiss Studios, Sydney; in superb condition, with the original tissue guard preserved (lightly foxed) and still housed in the studio’s green card portfolio, 310 x 235 mm (sunned at edges). Ada Emily Evans …
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# 45869
MATHEWSON & CO.
Studio portrait of a young woman in Salvation Army uniform. Brisbane, circa 1895.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 108 mm (mount); recto with the imprint in silver of ‘Mathewson & Co., Next Royal Bank only, Brisbane’; both the print and the mount are in good condition.
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# 29301
[WARNER BROS.] [RALSTON, Marcia, 1906-1988]
Signed photographic portrait of Australian Hollywood screen actress Marcia Ralston, circa 1937.
[Burbank, Ca. : Warner Bros. Pictures Inc., circa 1937]. Gelatin silver print publicity photograph, 175 x 125 mm, inscribed in white fountain pen by the actress ‘Sincerely, Marcia Ralston’; verso blank; in fine condition. The classically beautiful Sydney-born actress Marcia Ralston – winner of a Miss Australia contest – was one of a small number …
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# 25465
[HAYDON, Ethel, 1876-1954]; ELLIS, Alfred (1854-1930) (photographer)
Two photographic portraits of Australian actress and singer Ethel Haydon (later Mrs. George Robey), taken in London, 1895 or 1896.
[London : s.n., 1895-96]. Two printing-out paper print photographs, each 150 x 105 mm, laid down on a late nineteenth century album page with owner’s identifying caption ‘Ethel Haydon’ in white ink; both prints are embossed ‘Alfred Ellis Photographer / Copyright; the three-quarter length portrait on the left is beautifully lit and shows off her …
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# 46160
McNEILL, Frank A.
Studio portrait of Constance May Richmond, age 13 years. Adelaide, 1915.
Gelatin silver print photograph, postcard format 132 x 83 mm, verso with imprint of ‘Frank A. McNeill Studios, Adelaide & Port’, and a fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the sitter as ‘Constance May Richmond, age 13 years / 1915’; superb condition. Quite simply one of the finest Australian portraits of this period that we …
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# 43102
GREENFELD, M. W. (Maximilian William)
Studio portrait of two elegant young ladies reading a letter. Sydney, ca. 1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of ‘The Royal Studio, M. W. Greenfeld, Photographer, Artist in Oil, Water Colors & Crayons. 328, George Street, Sydney’, incorporating a vignette illustration of an artist’s palette; the print has some light surface rubbing in the upper section, …
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# 45623
ADELAIDE PHOTO. COMPANY (SYDNEY)
Dancer in front of a painted studio backdrop. Sydney, early 1890s.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 110 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted in gold ‘Adelaide Photo. Company. Corner of Pitt St. and Park St., Sydney. One door from Criterion Theatre.’; the print has pin holes at the corners but is otherwise excellent; the mount is a little toned (verso blank). …
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# 46361
[Photographer unknown]
Kuala Lumpur v. Special Service Squadron. [16 February, 1924].
[Title from caption on mount]. Large format gelatin silver print photograph, 230 x 280 mm; on original board mount, 355 x 460 mm, captioned in ink across the upper margin ‘KUALA LUMPUR v. SPECIAL SERVICE SQUADRON’; a strong print with excellent clarity, in very good condition; the mount is clean and stable (verso blank). In …
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# 46296
DAVIES, Alan; STANBURY, Peter
The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900.
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985. First printing. Quarto (290 x 220 mm), publisher’s black cloth in dust jacket (scattered foxing to inside of jacket); illustrated endpapers, 270 pp, profusely illustrated; contents clean throughout; a very good copy of the most useful reference work on Australian colonial photography yet published, now very scarce.
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# 46145
[Photographer unknown]
Studio portrait of Samoan London Missionary Society pastor and tutor Saanga and his family, (Apia?) 1906.
Gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 185 x 135 mm (mount); original studio mount (without photographer’s imprint); verso with Saanga’s own inscription in ink identifying the sitters as Saanga, Madeline, Freddy, Sose, Rarotonga, Rita, Edward, and beneath this ‘With Saanga’s kind regards. June 12 ’06‘; a slightly later ownership inscription in pencil at the top …
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# 45880
MENDELSSOHN, Albert
[TICHBORNE CASE] “Twenty Years After,” Roger Tichborne was lost A.D. 1854, the Claimant was lost A.D. 1874.
[Title from artist’s caption]. London : Albert Mendelssohn, [1874]. Albumen print photograph of a satirical cartoon (artist’s monogram W.R. in the image), carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount), recto with the artist’s printed caption to lower margin; verso with wet stamp of ‘Albert Mendelssohn, Publisher, London’; in fine condition. The case of the …
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# 45829
[LEFEBVRE, Jules Joseph, 1836-1911); F. MULNIER (photographer)
[MELBOURNE] Portrait of Jules Joseph Lefebvre, the French artist who painted “Chloé”. Paris, circa 1879.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm; verso with the imprint of the photographic studio of Ferdinand Mulnier, 25 Boulevard des Italiens, which also mentions the gold medal awarded to him at the Exposition Universelle of 1878, and with contemporary captions in ink and pencil identifying the sitter as Lefebvre; in …
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# 45072
[POULTON, S. E., attributed]
[ROWING] The Radley and Eton crews, Henley, 26 June 1858.
Two albumen print photographs with hand tinting, in uniform arch-top format, dimensions 75 x 62 mm; mounted side-by-side on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf, with a fully contemporary pencilled caption between the pair reading ‘Radley and Eton crews, Henley, June 26, 1858’; beneath each print (in pencil, in the same hand as the …
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# 43328
[Photographer unknown]
Ambrotype of a young girl wearing a bonnet.
[British, circa 1860]. Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied colour (pale blue bonnet and ribbon), 73 x 58 mm (image); housed in original oval brass mat and wall case with hook for suspension; in very good condition. A beautiful child portrait, but as much as anything else a lovely hands study.