Photographs - Portraits
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# 43412
[Photographer unknown].
Ambrotype of a young girl seated in a chair, her hands clasped. Early 1860s.
[USA : s.n., 1860-65]. Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied colour, 66 x 55 mm (sight), in a nonpareil brass matt, housed in full leather case with embossed geometric design, working brass clasp; both the ambrotype and case are in fine condition.
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# 46750
THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Studio portrait of Robert Moffatt, LMS missionary in Southern Africa. London, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with printed signature of Robert Moffatt to lower margin; verso with the back mark of the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. ‘Robert Moffatt (Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, December 21, 1795-Leigh, …
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# 49855
DOBBYN, Tim
Black, White and Colour. (Standard edition, signed by the photographer and the author)
Melbourne : Ginninderra Press, 2025. ISBN 9781761097089. Quarto, hardcover, 207 pages; offset printed on ivory silk paper for superior image reproduction and touch. Designed and typeset by Isambard Thomas. This biography of one of Australia’s treasured artists offers an intimate portrait of the struggles and triumphs of Mervyn Bishop, Australia’s ground-breaking Indigenous photographer. Born in Brewarrina …
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# 49854
DOBBYN, Tim
Black, White and Colour. (Deluxe edition, Format 2)
Melbourne : Ginninderra Press, 2025. Editions 71-100. ISBN 9781761097089. Quarto, hardcover, 207 pages; offset printed on ivory silk paper for superior image reproduction and touch. Designed and typeset by Isambard Thomas. This is copy number 73. Each specially bound limited edition in box contains two original signed photographs: Is there an Aboriginal photography? Self-portrait, 1989, AND Prime …
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# 49824
IMPERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Studio portrait of a woman with her dogs. Melbourne, mid 1880s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘”Imperial”, 109 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne’ (this studio was later operated by E. C. Waddington), and with fully contemporary pencilled initials ‘E. H.’; both the print and mount are in very good condition. A lovely studio portrait of a Melbourne woman with her arm …
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![[TASMANIA] Ambrotype portrait of Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet. Launceston(?), c.1855; plus associated photographic portraits of members of the Richardson and Sherwin families.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/06/2025_DSFB_3175-300x300.jpg)
# 43660
[Various photographers]
[TASMANIA] Ambrotype portrait of Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet. Launceston(?), c.1855; plus associated photographic portraits of members of the Richardson and Sherwin families.
I. Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet, c.1855. [Photographer unknown]. Half-plate ambrotype with hand colouring, 120 x 90 mm (sight), housed in a brass mat with ormolu preserver under the original cover glass and in the original leather half-case; verso with two brass hooks and wire for wall hanging; small areas …
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![[SYDNEY] Camp in Middle Harbour.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_DSFB_0891-300x300.jpg)
# 42979
Photographer unknown.
[SYDNEY] Camp in Middle Harbour.
[Title from inscription]. Albumen print photograph, 105 x 190 mm; inscribed in pencil verso in a fully contemporary hand ‘Camp in Middle Harbour’; in very good condition; unmounted. A charming 1890s outdoor portrait by an unidentified photographer – possibly an amateur – of a group of Sydneysiders enjoying recreation time on the Middle Harbour foreshore. …
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# 36864
HERBERTE, H. A.
A group of young men relaxing at Tocumwal in the New South Wales southern Riverina, circa 1910.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 137 mm, printed on postcard stock; verso wet-stamped ‘H. A. Herberte, Photo., Tocumwal’; a few marks to the margins, but the image itself is hardly affected. These likely lads were probably part of a sporting team or church social group out for a picnic in the fresh air at …
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# 49096
POOCHEE, Biggingee Sorabjee
Studio portrait of Mr. D. Ross and his young son. Ipswich, Queensland, circa 1874.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 64 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Biggingee Sorabjee Poochee, Brisbane Street, Ipswich’; removed by the previous owner from an album window mount which was inscribed ‘D. Ross’ follow by an abbreviated word (possibly “kindred”) – see accompanying image; both the print and the mount are in …
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![[MELBOURNE] Studio portrait of Henry Varley, Baptist preacher and moral campaigner. New York, c.1875.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/12/2025_DSFB_7347-300x300.jpg)
# 49051
BOGARDUS, Abraham
[MELBOURNE] Studio portrait of Henry Varley, Baptist preacher and moral campaigner. New York, c.1875.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 114 mm; recto of mount with printed caption ‘HENRY VARLEY, EVANGELIST‘; verso with the pictorial back mark of ‘Bogardus’ Souvenir Card, 872 Broadway, cor. 18th St., New York‘; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. This fine portrait of Varley was taken in 1875 …
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![[HEALESVILLE SANCTUARY] Two albums of original photographs of native animals, including "Splash" the platypus, plus local views and portraits, 1930s-40s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/12/2025_DSFB_7386-300x233.jpg)
# 43726
HODGES, Ralph Morwell (1896-1957)
[HEALESVILLE SANCTUARY] Two albums of original photographs of native animals, including “Splash” the platypus, plus local views and portraits, 1930s-40s.
Album 1. Oblong quarto (205 x 285 mm), embossed red leather over boards; front endpaper with ownership inscription of Morwell Hodges; approx. [50] mounted b/w gelatin silver print photographs, most 150 x 200 mm format, and several newspaper cuttings relating to the Healesville wildlife sanctuary and Coranderrk Aboriginal reserve; subjects include “Splash”, the famous Healesville …
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# 49414
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 (light edge wear, scattered foxing to inside of jacket), stain to lower edge; illustrated endpapers, 270 pp, profusely illustrated; contents clean throughout; a good copy of the most useful reference work on Australian colonial photography yet …
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# 46146
WRIGHT, John
Studio portrait of two identically dressed young brothers. Ballarat, Victoria, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of J. Wright, Photographer, Sturt St., Ballarat’; the print has rich tonal range and is in excellent condition; the mount has a few small marks to the borders and some old paper adhesions at the corners on the verso.
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![[WESTERN DISTRICT] Photographs of The Burns Boys, and the Bark Mill machinery, by which they lost their arms, at Portland.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2988-300x300.jpg)
# 47303
[MARCHAND, Aimé, photographer]; EVENING NEWS, SANDHURST (BENDIGO)
[WESTERN DISTRICT] Photographs of The Burns Boys, and the Bark Mill machinery, by which they lost their arms, at Portland.
[1874]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm (mount); the negative with caption in manuscript ‘A.M. Copyright Registered’; verso with printed title in various fonts ‘Photographs of The Burns Boys, and the Bark Mill machinery, by which they lost their arms, at Portland’, and ‘Copyright Registered / “Evening News” office, Sandhurst’; the …
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# 46149
WOOD, David
Studio portrait of a married couple posed in front of a painted backdrop of an exotic garden. South Melbourne, late 1880s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 107 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted ‘D. Wood, near Town Hall, South Melbourne’; verso blank; a superb print with beautiful muted tones, in excellent condition; the mount is clean and stable. The painted backdrop in this cabinet card portrait is quite magnificent – as are a …
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![The Geelong Orphan Asylum. On the occasion of the Presentation of an Address and Bouquet to James Austin, Esq. [1862, or earlier]](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2985-300x300.jpg)
# 47302
[Photographer unknown].
The Geelong Orphan Asylum. On the occasion of the Presentation of an Address and Bouquet to James Austin, Esq. [1862, or earlier]
[Title from printed label verso]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm (arch-top format), on original flat mount of buff card, 83 x 173 mm; verso with printed caption label; light foxing to the prints and the mount, otherwise very good condition. The Geelong Orphan Asylum was founded in 1854. James …