Photographs - Portraits
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# 40123
BROWN, Joseph Lyne
Studio portrait of a lady in a fine taffeta dress. Singleton, Hunter Valley, New South Wales, circa 1862.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 61 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Lyne Brown, Artist Photographer, Singleton’; a lovely crisp print with good tonal range, in fine condition; the mount has a bumped bottom corner but is otherwise clean and unmarked. A rare example of a carte de visite portrait with Lyne Brown’s …
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# 40987
BATCHELDER & O'NEILL
Studio portrait of a magnificently dressed lady with bottle curls. Melbourne, 1862-3.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 98 x 64 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Batchelder & O’Neill, 57 Collins Street East, Melbourne’; a beautiful print with rich tonal range, in fine condition; the mount also pristine. Provenance: From a family album belonging to Scottish immigrants Alexander and Annabella Sloane of Mulwala and Savernake Stations, …
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# 40518
SOLOMON, Saul
Portrait of a veiled woman in velvet. Adelaide, circa 1880.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm, verso with imprint of ‘S. Solomon, School of Photography, 51 Rundle Street, Adelaide’; print and mount are in superb condition. A magnificent head-and-shoulders portrait. Surely the sitter is a celebrity – possibly an actress?
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# 40442
FOX, H. W.
Studio portrait of a gentleman standing in front of a trompe l’œil backdrop. Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, circa 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 65 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of ‘H. W. Fox, Photographic Artist, Ann Street, Fortitude Valley’; print and mount are in excellent condition. An extremely rare carte de visite by H. W. Fox. Remarkably, Trove locates no examples of Fox’s photographs in Australian collections. …
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# 40125
Photographer unknown.
Larrakia children posing on the branches of a dead tree, Port Darwin, circa 1920.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 90 x 140 mm; verso inscribed in pencil ‘Port Darwin’; fine condition, unmounted. In spite of the fact that Port Darwin had officially became known as Darwin in 1911, we believe this photograph was taken by a visitor with a personal camera around 1920; they simply used the old nomenclature in …
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# 40440
DUESBURY, Samuel
Woman seated beside a man standing and holding an axe. Brisbane, circa 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 61 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of ‘S. Duesbury, Photographer, Brisbane’; a superb print with rich tonal range, in excellent condition. Staffordshire-born photographer Samuel Duesbury was active in Brisbane from 1868. Along with Thomas Bevan, Daniel Marquis, and John Watson, he was one of the four …
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# 40441
WYATT, Thomas J. J.
Studio portrait of a young woman holding a letter. Western District, Victoria, early 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Thos. J. J. Wyatt, Warrnambool, Portland and Belfast’; a superb, crisp print; in fine condition, as is the mount. A beautiful studio portrait of a woman seated beside a table, holding a letter. There can be little doubt she …
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# 40401
THURSTON, Horatio (1838-1881)
Gentleman seated at a table, holding a photograph album. Mudgee, New South Wales, 1867-68.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 63 mm (mount), verso with wet stamp of ‘H. Thurston, Photographic Artist & Stationer, Mudgee’; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. An extremely rare example of a carte de visite studio portrait from Horatio Thurston’s brief career as a professional photographer in Mudgee, …
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# 41118
FRANCIS, William Augustus
Husband and (expectant?) wife. Adelaide, mid 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘W. A. Francis, Photographer and Artist, 93 Hindley St. Adelaide’; the print has excellent clarity and is in good condition; the mount is lightly foxed. A nicely composed studio portrait of a married couple. We suspect the woman is …
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# 41181
GAUL, John
Jamaica-born Gertrude Colleton, daughter of Frederick Colleton and great-granddaughter of Admiral Richard Graves. Melbourne, November 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 61 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed from life by Gaul, 75 & 77 Swanston St., Melbourne’ and with an extensive inscription in ink: ‘Gertrude Sophia Jane Plantagenet Colleton, only child of Frederick Nassau William Graves Colleton and great-grandchild of Admiral Richard Graves of Hembury Fort, County …
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# 41172
MELBOURNE & SYDNEY PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY [JONES, Henry]
Studio portrait of Annie Deutsch. Melbourne, circa 1866.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, in carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Melbourne & Sydney Photographic Company, 19 Collins St., East, nearly opposite the Bank of Victoria, Melbourne’, with a contemporary caption in ink, identifying the sitter: ‘Annie Deutsch’, and below it another, in pencil: ‘Jones’; the print and mount …
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# 41293
WILEY, John S.
Studio portrait of socialite Miss Lilian M. Drury. Brisbane, Queensland, 1896.
Albumen print photograph, Paris Panel format, 250 x 160 mm, signed and dated in ink by the sitter ‘Lilian M. Drury 1896’ ; recto of mount with imprint of ‘Wiley, 8 Queen Street, Brisbane’; the print has a light horizontal crease extending from the lower right edge; the mount has some pale foxing and corner …
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# 41286
GEORGE & WALTON
Studio portrait of Elizabeth Smith (Spicer), wife of Sir Edwin Smith, businessman, mayor and politician. Adelaide, South Australia, circa 1883.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 113 mm (mount); recto of mount with gilt imprint of ‘George & Walton, late Tuttle & Co., 65, Rundle Street, Adelaide’; verso with identifying caption in pencil in a later hand (copies from an album mount) ‘Elizabeth Smith née Spicer’; a superb print in fine condition, as …
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# 41575
BOAKE, Barcroft Capel
Studio portrait of a young woman with bottle curls. 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 has lovely dark tones and is in good condition; the mount has some light handling marks and mild foxing.
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# 40127
JOHNSTONE, O'SHANNESSY & CO.
Studio portrait of a young woman with bottle curls, wearing tartan and a bonny velvet hat. Melbourne, circa 1875.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 164 x 107 mm (mount); recto imprinted in gold ‘CABINET PORTRAIT. Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co., Photographers to His Excellency. 3 Bourke St. East, next the Post Office, Melbourne’; a superb print in fine condition; the mount is unmarked (verso blank). The young woman is quite possibly a singer or …
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# 41387
BEWLEY, Henry [ST. ARNAUD DISPENSARY]
Studio portraits of Alice and William Bond Helliar, of Natte Yallock, just north of Avoca in the Pyrenees region of Victoria. St. Arnaud, early 1870s.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mounts); versos with the back mark of ‘Hy. Bewley, Photographer, St. Arnaud Dispensary’, and contemporary captions in ink identifying the sitters as siblings Alice Helliar and William Bond Helliar; the vignette portrait of William is a little overexposed, but otherwise both prints are …