Photographs - Portraits
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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 …
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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.