Photographs - Portraits
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# 46089
[Photographer unknown]
Signed photograph of dancer Sally Gilmour, of the Ballet Rambert. Melbourne, circa 1948.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 160 x 110 mm, signed in pencil ‘Sally Gilmour’; verso with faint wet stamp, possibly of the Herald Sun newspaper, although only the words ‘Copyright … Melbourne, Australia’ are discernible; short crease at right-hand edge, otherwise very good; the verso has light foxing. This studio portrait of Sally Gilmour, leading British …
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# 45920
FRY, George
Studio portrait of James Moorhouse, Anglican Bishop of Melbourne 1876-1886. London, circa 1876.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘George Fry, Artist & Photographer. Opalotype Studio, 12 Lower Seymour St., Portman Square, W.’; the print has a couple of tiny ink marks near the top edge, but is otherwise in very good condition, as is the mount. James …
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# 45881
BROWN, Wellesley
A vaudeville actress in theatrical costume. Geelong, Victoria, circa 1905.
Gelatin silver print photograph in cabinet card format, 165 x 107 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘Wellesley Brown, Geelong’; verso blank; both the print and the mount are in very good condition. An unidentified young woman dressed in seventeenth-century men’s costume. In the very early 1900s the photographer, Wellesley Brown, operated the Lucton Studio in Camperdown …
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# 46176
DAWSON, Patrick
Studio portrait of lady resting her hand on a chair. Hamilton, Western District of Victoria, circa 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); embossed imprint of P. Dawson Photographer Hamilton at lower left; verso blank; the print has some tiny spots of foxing and light surface rubbing but is otherwise in good condition, as is the mount. Hamilton photographer Patrick Dawson is best known for his portraits of the …
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# 46174
BURMAN, F. C.
Photographic portrait of the tragic actor G. V. Brooke. Melbourne, 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘F. C. Burman, Photographic Artist, 41 Madeline Street, Carlton, Melbourne’; both the print and mount are have some light marks. The great Irish-born Shakespearean actor Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818-1866) was a significant figure on the Australian colonial stage from …
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# 46175
KRUGER, J. C. A.
Studio portrait of a lady in mourning resting her hand on a plinth. Hamilton, Victoria, 1863-6.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 62 mm; verso imprinted ‘Photographed by J. C. A. Kruger’; the print has some surface scratches toward the the top edge, but is otherwise in good condition; the mount is toned and has some light stains on the verso. From contemporary newspaper notices we can piece …
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# 45879
EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS
Studio portrait of a young woman in Salvation Army uniform. Sydney, late 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 107 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in very good condition; the mount has scattered foxing.
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# 45889
CAZNEAUX, Harold Pierce (1878-1953)
Two portraits of photographer and missionary Norman Deck. Sydney, 1905.
Two carbon print photographs, each 145 x 110 mm, on the original textured card mounts, 305 x 190 mm, both signed and inscribed on the mount in pencil by the photographer ‘H. Cazneaux / Portraits’; verso of one mount inscribed in pencil in Deck’s hand ‘Norman Deck 1905. Portrait by H. Cazneaux’; both prints are …
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# 45624
EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS
Wedding cake. Sydney, 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 109 mm (mount); recto of mount with the embossed imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in excellent condition; the mount has some minor foxing. A studio “portrait” with an uncommon subject.
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# 45867
BARDWELL, William H. (1836-1929)
Signed studio portrait of actress Alice Lingard. Melbourne, 1876.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount), recto signed by the sitter in ink across the studio imprint in the lower margin ‘Alice Lingard’; verso with ‘Bardwell, Melbourne’ printed in gold ink, along with the wet stamp of the ‘William Horace Lingard Comedy Company’; in fine condition. English actress Alice Dunning …
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# 45625
ADELAIDE PHOTO. COMPANY (SYDNEY)
Studio portrait of a fashionably dressed young woman. Sydney, c.1895.
Printing-out-paper print photograph, carte de visite format, 92 x 57 mm (no mount); verso wet stamped ‘Adelaide Photo. Company. Corner of Pitt St. and Park St., Sydney. One door from Criterion Theatre.’; in very good condition. Possibly a stage performer from the Criterion Theatre?
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# 45562
HEWITT, Charles
[MARITIME] Joseph and Mary Ann Jewell, survivors of the wreck of the General Grant, shipwrecked in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand in May 1866.
[Circa 1868]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 61 mm (mount); recto inscribed ‘9d pence each’ (presumably in the hand of a Melbourne print- or bookseller); verso with imprint of ‘C. Hewitt, Photographer, Australasian Studio, 95, Swanston Street. Melbourne’; a strong print but with scattered foxing; the back mark is faded. The American …
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# 45551
DAVIS, John
Portrait of Wellington Ngu (later Second Crown Prince of Tonga) in military uniform, c.1878.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 64 mm; verso with the back mark of ‘J. DAVIS, PHOTOGRAPHER, 21 Botany Street, near Oxford Street, SYDNEY. View of Friendly and Navigators Islands.’; a superb print with excellent tonal range; [TOGETHER WITH] another carte de visite in identical format (but for some reason without Davis’ …
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# 45560
LAMARTINIERE, Alexandra Henry
Studio portrait of comedian, singer and theatrical entrepreneur Harry Rickards and his first wife, actress Caroline Hayden. Sydney, c.1872.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Lamartiniere & Co., late Dalton’s, Photographic Artists. 320 George Street, 6 doors from Hunter St., Sydney’, and wet stamp in purple ink ‘The Rickards Comique Concert Party’; the print has some light mottling in the negative, but is in …
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# 45875
TASMA
Studio portrait of a young man in Salvation Army uniform, posed with his banjo and tuba. Sydney, late 1890s.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 106 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘TASMA 176 King Street, Newton, Sydney’; both the print and mount are in excellent condition.
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# 43247
[Unknown British photographer].
A pair of daguerreotype portraits of mature sisters, taken in the same studio, early 1850s.
Two ninth-plate daguerreotypes with applied colour, each 55 x 44 mm (sight), housed identically in elliptical brass mats within leather cases with the same floral-patterned red velvet lining on the interior; the exterior of one case has embossed floral decoration and the other is plain (a little sun-faded on one side); both cases have working …