Photographs - Portraits
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# 42873
GORUS, John T.
Studio portrait of a gentleman with a long white beard, wearing a light-coloured hat. Sydney, late 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 64 mm (mount), recto of mount imprinted J. T. Gorus Sydney; verso imprinted From the Studio of J. T. Gorus, Photographic Artist, 101 King Street, Sydney, New South Wales; both the print and mount are in excellent condition.
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# 42874
NEWMAN, J. (John) Hubert (1830-1916)
Studio portrait of a teenage boy. Sydney, circa 1880.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount), verso with imprint of J. Hubert Newman, Photographer, Oil and Crayon Painter etc., No. 12 Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Sydney, N.S.W.; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. A superb head-and-shoulders portrait of a scholarly looking adolescent, no doubt a scion of …
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# 42852
NEWMAN, J. (John) Hubert (1830-1916)
Studio portrait of poet Henry Kendall. Sydney, circa 1880.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount), verso with imprint of J. Hubert Newman, Photographer, Oil and Crayon Painter etc., No. 12 Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Sydney, N.S.W.; the print has some light rubbing and a few tiny ink spots, but is otherwise in very good condition, as is the mount. …
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# 16383
DALTON, Edward
[OPERA] Photographic portraits of Henry Squires and Lucy Escott, Sydney, early 1860s
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mounts), 90 x 57 mm (images), versos with imprint of Dalton’s Royal Photographic Gallery, Sydney; the albumen prints with some tiny ink spots, otherwise both cartes are in very good condition. The American opera singers Henry Squires (1825-1907) and Lucy Escott (1827-1895) arrived …
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# 42240
PATERSON BROS.
Studio portrait of Signor Battista Antonio Borsa, brewery and guesthouse owner and prominent member of the Swiss-Italian community in the Daylesford area, Victorian goldfields. Melbourne, 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 62 mm (mount); bottom margin with studio wet stamp of ‘Paterson, 8 Bourke St. E., Melb.’; verso inscribed in pencil by the sitter: ‘Presented to Wm. Jervis by Signor Borsa Antonio, Bellinzona, Switzerland. Sepr. 25th 1870’; a very strong print in excellent condition, the mount with …
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# 42699
[THOMSON, John (1837-1921) (photographer) and Adolphe Smith HEADINGLEY (1846-1924)]
Street Incidents : a series of twenty-one permanent photographs, with descriptive letter-press.
London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher’s pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black (boards with light staining and flecking, spine sunned and flecked, text block a little sprung), original patterned endpapers, pp [2], [1]-100, with 21 original woodburytypes from Thomson’s original dry-plate negatives, each with …
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# 41951
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924)
Billy, Jenny and her son Toby: the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885.
Two albumen print photographs, in identical 160 x 117 mm format (approximately cabinet card size); laid down side-by-side on their original mount of thin card, 310 x 405 mm, lower margin of the mount with a calligraphic caption in ink: Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte; both prints with some loss of contrast, scattered pale …
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# 41960
THE ALMA STUDIOS
Studio portrait of a large (Italian?) family and their pet dog. Footscray, Melbourne, ca. 1900.
Albumen print photograph, Paris Panel format, 180 x 250 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘The Alma Studios, Hopkins St., Footscray’; a very sharp print with beautiful chocolate tones, in fine condition; the mount has some light foxing.
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# 41576
BOAKE, Barcroft Capel
Studio portrait of a young man holding a book. Sydney, circa 1867.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format; verso with imprint of ‘B. C. Boake. / From Freeman Bros. / Photographer. / 330 George St., Sydney / (over Mr. Jones, Jeweller &c.); the print and mount are both in good condition.
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# 42028
BATCHELDER, Benjamin Pierce
Pair of photographic portraits of a young Scottish immigrant family. Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria, 1866-67.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, in uniform 105 x 62 mm format (mounts); versos imprinted ‘Photographed by Batchelder, Pall Mall, Sandhurst’; rectos with fully contemporary inscriptions in ink identifying the four children by their first names, Jessie & Robert (with their father) and Willie & Mary (with their mother); both prints are in …
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# 41953
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924)
Billy, one of the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885.
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924) Billy, one of the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885. Two albumen print photographs, in identical large 220 x 170 mm format; laid down side-by-side on their original mount of thin card, 310 x 405 mm, lower margin of the …
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# 41840
RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)
The Great Melbourne Telescope.
[Late 1880s]. Albumen print, 130 x 195 mm; preserved as issued mounted on the original green backing sheet, 190 x 230 mm, imprinted in red ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD. View Specialist. 257 Bourke Street’, and at lower centre: ‘VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS.’; both the print and the secondary support are in excellent condition. Rare 1880s view …
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# 41553
TUTTLE & CO.
Photographic portrait of Australian professional rower William “Bill” Beach, unbeaten as World Sculling Champion 1884-87. Sydney, circa 1884.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘Tuttle & Co., Corner of George & Market Sts., Sydney’; verso with advertisement for the New York Tailoring Company, 667 George Street, Haymarket; print with pale foxing, mount a little darkened from handling otherwise very good. William Beach …
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# 41467
Photographer unknown.
Graziers showing off their two fine merino rams, South Australia (possibly Mount Gambier), early 1860s.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 70 x 70 mm (arched-top format), buff-coloured mount 88 x 173 mm; no photographer’s imprint or inscription on verso; both are strong prints with excellent clarity, and they have survived virtually unscathed; the mount has a central vertical crease, foxing and light staining, as well as a small …
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# 41753
[CAIRE, Nicholas John, attributed]
Large group of men photographed outdoors on New Year’s Day, 1874. Possibly Sandhurst (Bendigo) area, Victorian goldfields.
Very large format albumen print photograph, 215 x 270 mm; dated in manuscript in negative lower left ‘1 Jan 1874’; the verso has a contemporary inscription in pencil ‘No. 1’ and a straight-line wet stamp in green ink whose lettering is unfortunately indecipherable; the print has three vertical folds, with a short tear at the …
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# 41731
GLENNY, Henry (1835-1910)
Studio portrait of a young man holding his hat. Castlemaine, Victoria, circa 1867.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Dublin & Melbourne Portrait Rooms, Market Square, Castlemaine’; both the print and the mount are in fine condition. Irish-born Henry Glenny was a pioneer photographer on the central Victorian goldfields. He opened his first studio in Castlemaine in 1857, …