Photographs - Portraits
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# 44084
BLAND, C. V.
Lawn bowls team. Geelong, circa 1925.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 165 x 215 mm, laid down on its original board mount with the handwritten details of the photographer on the mount l.r. ‘C. V. Bland Photo Geelong’; verso with fully contemporary inscription in pencil identifying the four gentlemen as ‘McIntyre, Prowse, Batty, Hall’; in excellent condition. Mr. C. V. Bland was …
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# 43862
A. W. BURMAN [JOHNSON, Annie]
Studio portrait of Alfred Goddard in his postal worker’s uniform. Melbourne, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 164 x 108 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted ‘A. W. Burman, 100 Chapel Street, Prahran – near Town Hall’; the print has a small mark at upper right, but is otherwise in good condition; the mount is very clean (verso blank). This cabinet card came from a distressed …
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# 43729
GOODES, Henry R.
Elderly gentleman standing beside a high-backed chair. Mudgee, New South Wales, circa 1870.
Albumen print photograph with subtle hand tinting, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); recto imprinted ‘H. Goodes Photo., Mudgee’; verso blank; print and mount are both in very good condition. The unidentified sitter is likely to have been one of the first white settlers in the Mudgee district. From an album belonging …
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# 43838
HARVEY & DUNDEN (GEELONG)
“Contributions Solicited” : carte de visite album “opener”. Geelong, early 1870s.
Albumen print, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); verso with back mark in green of ‘Harvey & Dunden, Corner Portrait Gallery, Moorabool St., Geelong’; foxing to both sides. Cartes de visite of this type – usually comprising a short rhyming verse decorated with any one of a multitude of different pictorial themes …
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# 43840
ALLAN, Mark Joseph
Pair of studio portraits of a Salvation Army couple in uniform. Melbourne, late 1880s.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mounts); rectos of mounts imprinted ‘Allan, 270 Smith Street, Collingwood’; both prints and mounts are in excellent condition. These portraits were clearly taken during the same visit to Allan’s studio, probably around 1888, the year Allan commenced business in Smith Street. They were found …
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# 43846
BARDWELL, William
Studio portrait of a young woman wearing a crocheted shawl and holding a book. Ballarat, mid 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso of mount imprinted ‘Bardwell, Ballarat. Photographer By Special Appointment to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and His Excellency Sir George Bowen. Awarded the three First Prize Medals at the International Exhibition 1872-3, and the First Gold Medal from the South Kensington Exhibition …
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# 43719
FARNDELL, Francis ("Frank")
Studio portraits of a young man and woman, possibly siblings. Adelaide, 1865-67.
I. [Portrait of a young woman standing beside a chair]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘Frank Farndell, Photographer, 167 Rundle St. East, Adelaide, S.A.’; the print has a surface scratch near the centre of the image which crosses the sitter’s face; mount in good …
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![[CROSS-DRESSING] Julian Eltinge in the "Fascinating Widow".](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_DSFB_2573-300x300.jpg)
# 43740
A. H. WOODS
[CROSS-DRESSING] Julian Eltinge in the “Fascinating Widow”.
[Indianapolis?] : A. H. Woods, [1912]. Postcard, 90 x 140 mm, recto with half-tone photographic portrait of Eltinge in stage costume, verso imprinted ‘A. H. Woods presents Julian Eltinge in “The Fascinating Widow”‘, and underneath in red ‘English Opera House, Week commencing Monday March 25th. Matinees Wed. and Sat.’; not mailed; two short tears at …
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![[TASMANIA; PORT PHILLIP] Studio portraits of Wimmera squatter Monckton Synnot (ca. 1864), his wife Anne (Wedge) Synnot (ca. 1870), and their seven children (1863).](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_DSFB_2208-300x300.jpg)
# 43443
ROBERTS, W. F.; BOTTERILL, John; BATCHELDER & O'NEILL
[TASMANIA; PORT PHILLIP] Studio portraits of Wimmera squatter Monckton Synnot (ca. 1864), his wife Anne (Wedge) Synnot (ca. 1870), and their seven children (1863).
I. W. F. Roberts, Market Square, Geelong, photographer. [Probably taken on the same day in late 1863]. Seven albumen print studio portraits, in uniform carte de visite format. The seven young sitters are all identified in a fully contemporary hand on the versos as follows: Monckton Davy Synott (1854-1938), Jane Elizabeth Synott (1855-1933), Richard Walter …
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# 43408
Photographer unknown
Ambrotype of two amputees, almost certainly Civil War casualties. U.S.A., 1861-65.
Ambrotype (wet collodion positive), 80 x 70 mm (sight); housed in a double elliptical brass mat under cover glass, in a half leather case with geometric design; the ambrotype has some tiny mould spiders, minor crazing and specks of dust, but is otherwise in very good condition. It has been estimated that 60,000 surgical amputations …
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# 43417
Photographer unknown
Ambrotype of two adolescent sisters in crinoline dresses, the older one seated, the younger standing beside a plaster bust. U.S.A., circa 1860.
Quarter-plate ambrotype (wet collodion positive) with applied colour, 80 x 110 mm (sight); housed in an elliptical brass mat under cover glass, in a leather case with embossed floral design; the ambrotype is in very good condition.
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# 43358
Photographer unknown
Outdoor ambrotype of a family group with three generations of women (and a pet pony). U.S.A., 1856-57.
Sixth-plate ambrotype (wet collodion positive), 70 x 80 mm (sight); housed in an oval brass mat under cover glass, in an A. P. Critchlow thermoplastic Union case, 82 x 94 mm, with Mother Embracing Child 2 design (Berg 1-14); the ambrotype and case are in superb condition. A beautifully composed outdoor portrait of three generations of …
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# 42948
Photographer unknown.
Post-mortem ambrotype: standing father and seated mother cradling their dead child. Canada(?), circa 1860.
Sixth-plate ambrotype (wet collodion positive) with subtle hand tinting, 70 x 80 mm (sight); housed in an elliptical brass mount under cover glass, in a half leather case with embossed design featuring laurel wreath, flowers and both a Union Jack and French tricolour – suggesting a possible Canadian origin; the ambrotype is in very good …
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# 43430
Photographer unknown.
Members of the Sandhurst Volunteer Fire Brigade. Bendigo, Victoria, circa 1890.
Silver bromide copy print, in very large format 370 x 300 mm; in very good condition, with photographic studio’s re-touching highlighting the brigade’s initials on the uniforms; in the original gilded frame, 590 x 480 mm. The SVFB was formed in 1855, but it became known as the Bendigo Fire Brigade in 1891, which means …
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# 43115
ELITE STUDIO (JONES & LOTZ) (SAN FRANCISCO); WENDT, Frank (NEW YORK)
Two studio portraits of Australian Aborigines from North Queensland in R. A. Cunningham’s second touring company, taken in San Francisco (late 1892) and New York (early 1894).
I. San Francisco : Elite Studio, Jones & Lotz, 838 Market Street, [1892]. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (108 x 163 mm, mount), recto with embossed studio imprint at left margin; verso with contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Nov. 3 92 Stockton Cal. saw them throw them. Photo of Cannibals from Australia who use the …
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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. …