Photographs - Portraits
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# 46151
DAVIES & CO.
Studio portrait of a man with his elbow resting on a plinth and hand raised to his chin. Melbourne, circa 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm (mount); recto imprinted ‘Davies / Melbourne’; some peripheral pale foxing, otherwise an exceptionally sharp print in good condition; verso blank.
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# 48840
[Photographer unknown].
The foundation stone of the Robe Mechanics’ Institute, south-eastern South Australia, laid on 24 September 1868.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm; no photographer’s imprint (but possibly attributable to the travelling Mt. Gambier-based photographer Ginnings); the print has lost some contrast, nevertheless all of the text in the inscription can be easily read (see below); verso blank. From a carte de visite album belonging to William …
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# 42946
GOW, James
Daguerreotype of a seated gentleman wearing a silk cravat, velvet waistcoat and woollen overcoat. Sydney, 1854-55.
Sixth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 70 x 60 mm (sight); in a round-cornered square brass mat and ormolu preserver, the mat stamped at lower right ‘GOW / 253 GEORGE ST.’; housed in a half leather case with embossed floral design; the daguerreotype has some minor oxidisation at the right- and left-hand edges but is otherwise …
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# 37504
FALK STUDIO
Studio portrait of New Zealand-Australian boxer Otto Cribb. Sydney, c.1901.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 108 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘FALK / 496 George Street, Sydney’; verso with wet stamp of Melbourne print, postcard and photograph seller W. H. Cooper, Royal Arcade; the albumen print is in good condition; the mount is chipped at two corners, but is …
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# 46774
HEWITT, Charles
Studio portrait of opera singer Rosina Carandini (Palmer). Melbourne, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm; verso with the imprint of ‘C. Hewitt, Photographer, Australasian Studio, 95 Swanston St. Melbourne’, a fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the sitter as ‘Rosina Carandini’, and a death notice cut from Melbourne newspaper recording her death in 1932; the print and the mount …
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# 47756
DAVIES & CO.
Portrait of a bearded gentleman seated at a table. Melbourne, mid 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Davies & Co., Photographers, 5, Collins St. West, 3 doors from Elizabeth St., Melbourne’; a beautifully crisp print in excellent condition.
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# 46155
BURGIN, William Henry
Studio portrait of “Johnny”, age 2 years and 8 months. Parramatta, New South Wales, mid 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount inscribed in a fully contemporary hand: ‘Johnny / 2 years & 8 months’; verso with the back mark in blue of ‘W. H. Burgin, Photographer, Church-st., Parramatta’, surmounted by an Advance Australia coat of arms; the print is in excellent …
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# 47034
VAN BERCKELAER, Isadore
Studio portrait of a young boy dressed in a sailor suit. St. Kilda, Melbourne, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto and verso imprinted ‘I. Van Berckelaer High Street St. Kilda’; both the print and mount in excellent condition.
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# 47781
FALK STUDIO
Studio portrait of Miss Lily Dampier as Imogen in “Cymbeline”. Sydney, 1887.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 109 mm (mount); recto with printed caption ‘Miss Lily Dampier’ and imprint of ‘Falk / 496 George Street, Sydney’, along with a pencilled annotation ‘Imogene’ (sic); verso with a fuller inscription in ink ‘Lily as “Imogene” in Cymbeline September 4th 1887’; the print with some light foxing, …
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# 47782
FALK STUDIO
Studio portrait of Miss Lily Dampier as Portia in “The Merchant of Venice”. Sydney, 1887.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 109 mm (mount); recto with printed caption ‘Miss Lily Dampier’ and imprint of ‘Falk / 496 George Street, Sydney’, along with a pencilled annotation ‘Portia’; the print with some light foxing, more pronounced on the mount. Provenance: from a group of theatre-related photographs originally collected by the …
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# 47779
FALK STUDIO
Three studio portraits of Miss Lily Dampier as Lady Macbeth. Sydney, 1887.
Three albumen print photographs, in identical cabinet card format, 165 x 109 mm (mounts); rectos with printed caption ‘Miss Lily Dampier’ and imprint of ‘Falk / 496 George Street, Sydney’; one with pencilled annotation recto ‘Sept. 1887 / Lady Macbeth’ and a fuller inscription in ink on the verso ‘Lily as Lady Macbeth Sept 4th …
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# 47783
FALK STUDIO
Two studio portraits of Miss Lily Dampier in “The Lady of Lyons” by Bulwer-Lytton. Sydney, 1887.
Two albumen print photographs, in identical cabinet card format, 165 x 109 mm (mounts); rectos with printed caption ‘Miss Lily Dampier’ and imprint of ‘Falk / 496 George Street, Sydney’; one with pencilled annotation recto ‘Lady of Lyons Sept. 1887, both identically inscribed in ink to verso ‘Lily as Lady of Lyons Sept 4th 1887’; …
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# 47794
[Photographer unknown].
“Life in Queensland”. Three outdoor photographs, late 1860s.
Three albumen print photographs, in uniform 73 x 98 mm format, mounted recto of a 19th-century album leaf, with fully contemporary caption in ink beneath the images ‘Life in Queensland’; all three albumen prints are in very good condition; the mount has a few spots of foxing. Although the photographer and precise location(s) are not …
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# 47757
MILLER'S GARIBALDI PORTRAIT ROOMS [MILLER, Thomas]
Portrait of a dapper gentleman in bow-tie and grey flannel suit, seated in front of a painted backdrop. Melbourne, c.1867.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 107 x 62 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Miller’s Garibaldi Portrait Rooms, 98 1/2 Swanston St. (between Gt. & Lt. Bourke Sts., Melbourne’; a superb print in fine condition, as is the mount. A rare carte de visite by Melbourne photographer (and tobacconist) Thomas Miller. We can find …
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![[MELBOURNE] The staff of J. O'Callaghan furniture removals, Chapel Street, St. Kilda, at a picnic at Half Moon Bay, 26 January 1922.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/06/2025_DSFB_3160-300x300.jpg)
# 47316
[Photographer unknown]
[MELBOURNE] The staff of J. O’Callaghan furniture removals, Chapel Street, St. Kilda, at a picnic at Half Moon Bay, 26 January 1922.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 136 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; verso annotated in pencil by an O’Callaghan staff member with details of location and date of the photograph ‘Half Moon Bay [i.e. Black Rock] A. N. A. Day, 1922 Victoria’, and another note with directions for a local removal job: ‘Mr. …
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# 46148
HEWITT, Charles
Studio portrait of a married couple. Melbourne, early 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘C. Hewitt, Photographer. Australasian Studio. 95 Swanston St. Melbourne’; the print is in fine condition; the mount has some pale foxing.