Photographs - Topographic

  • Hobart Town, the capital of Tasmania.

    # 33639

    CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (after)

    Hobart Town, the capital of Tasmania.

    [Title from printed caption below image]. Wood-engraved panorama, 195 x 550 mm (sheet); no engraver’s details; central vertical fold with light foxing, else very good. This engraved view was removed (by a previous owner) from a copy of the April 4 1868 edition of the Illustrated London News, in which the panorama was one of …

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  • On board the yacht "Maraquita", photographed by Captain Henry at sea, on her outward bound voyage to Iceland, November 1858.

    # 33051

    HENRY, R. J., Captain

    On board the yacht “Maraquita”, photographed by Captain Henry at sea, on her outward bound voyage to Iceland, November 1858.

    [British, November 1858]. Stereoscopic photograph, each individual image 71 x 64 mm (arched format), on original card mount 110 x 170 mm (trimmed at the lower margin and so lacking the printed caption), verso with fully contemporary caption in pencil ‘On Board the Yacht – Maraquita’ (same wording as the original printed caption); the prints are …

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  • View from the foot of Splitter Falls, on the Erskine River near Lorne, Victoria, circa 1880.

    # 33140

    CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918)

    View from the foot of Splitter Falls, on the Erskine River near Lorne, Victoria, circa 1880.

    Albumen print photograph, 280 x 230 mm, laid down on its original album leaf of thin card, with a fully contemporary pencilled caption in French beneath the image: ‘Splitters fall (partie du milieu) haute 200 pieds’; a strong print with good tonal range, slight yellowing at edges; in very good condition (tiny amount of loss …

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  • A group of twenty-four stereoscopic views of rock formations and other topographical features along the coastline of southwest Victoria, circa 1865.

    # 30868

    WALTER, Charles (Carl) (1831-1907)

    A group of twenty-four stereoscopic views of rock formations and other topographical features along the coastline of southwest Victoria, circa 1865.

    [Melbourne : Age Office, circa 1865]. Twenty-four stereoscopic albumen print photographs, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm (arched format), on original yellow card mounts, 90 x 170 mm, versos with original paper labels printed with the series title ‘AUSTRALIAN SCENERY’ and the photographer’s information ‘Chas. Walter. Photographic Artist to The Illustrated Australian News, The …

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  • Road gang at work, Southern or Central Queensland, circa 1885.

    # 32057

    Photographer unknown.

    Road gang at work, Southern or Central Queensland, circa 1885.

    Albumen print photograph, 190 x 235 mm, laid down on its original album leaf (now split); fully contemporary caption in ink beneath image ‘Road Gang’; a very strong print with excellent clarity and tonal range; offsetting around edges, otherwise in fine condition. This photograph came with a group of Queensland views originally sourced from the …

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  • [FEDERATION] View of the Ceres, or Wheat Arch in Bridge Street, Sydney. January, 1901.

    # 32044

    LASSETTER & COY. (SYDNEY)

    [FEDERATION] View of the Ceres, or Wheat Arch in Bridge Street, Sydney. January, 1901.

    Albumen print photograph, 140 x 205 mm, laid down on its original board mount, 210 x 265 mm, verso with studio wet stamp of ‘Lassetter & Coy. Limited, Sydney’; the print is in good condition, with sharp detail; the borders of the mount are heavily foxed. The Ceres, or Wheat Arch in Bridge Street, was …

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  • 'Into the hollow mountains' - photographs by Robert Ashton (signed copy)

    # 31897

    ASHTON, Robert (1950 - )

    ‘Into the hollow mountains’ – photographs by Robert Ashton (signed copy)

    Text edited by Mark Gillespie. Melbourne : Outback Press, 1974. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers (edges rubbed, light surface wear, small area of mousing to edge of upper wrapper and extreme margin of a few leaves), pp. 96, a few light marks, previous owner’s name to title page, a good copy. Signed by Robert Ashton on …

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  • Headstone in the Geelong Eastern Cemetery of local hotelier, James Bedford. Circa 1865.

    # 31356

    WILMOT & KEY

    Headstone in the Geelong Eastern Cemetery of local hotelier, James Bedford. Circa 1865.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Wilmot & Key, Photographers, Geelong Portrait Gallery, 31 Malop Street, Geelong’; the print and mount are in good condition; [together with] another Wilmot & Key carte de visite probably dating to around 1864-65 (the back mark has a different and possibly …

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  • Police Station, Goolwa. - Murray River. No. 59.

    # 30764

    BURNELL, George (1830-1894) & COLE, E.W. (1832-1918)

    Police Station, Goolwa. – Murray River. No. 59.

    [Title from contemporary inscription in ink verso]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 74 x 70 mm, on original flat mount of buff-coloured card, 83 x 177 mm; fully contemporary inscription in ink verso; each albumen print has a few tiny marks, and the mount is a little dusty but otherwise clean and stable. …

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  • Hanging Rock, Mount Macedon, Victoria, circa 1876.

    # 30310

    CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918)

    Hanging Rock, Mount Macedon, Victoria, circa 1876.

    Albumen print photograph, 183 x 131 mm, mounted on a leaf of thick card removed from a 19th-century album, inscribed in ink on the mount ‘”Hanging Rock”, Mount Macedon, Vic.’; some insignificant spotting confined to the edges of the image, otherwise a strong print with excellent tonal range, in very good condition. A very early …

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  • [SOUTH AUSTRALIA] Beaumont House, residence of Sir Samuel Davenport. Beaumont, Adelaide, late 1870s.

    # 30364

    Photographer unknown.

    [SOUTH AUSTRALIA] Beaumont House, residence of Sir Samuel Davenport. Beaumont, Adelaide, late 1870s.

    Albumen print photograph, 157 x 210 mm, no photographer’s imprint; laid down on its original 19th-century album leaf of thick card, with a fully contemporary inscription in ink beneath the image on the mount: ‘Beaumont – Sir Samuel Davenport’s residence’; a strong print with lovely tones, in very good condition. For a biography of Sir …

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  • [TAHITI] The Diadem taken from the top of Mount Aorai, circa 1885

    # 30340

    SPITZ Charles Georges (1857-1894); YOUNG, James Lyle (1849-1929), collector (attributed)

    [TAHITI] The Diadem taken from the top of Mount Aorai, circa 1885

    Albumen print, 107 x 166 mm, verso wet stamped ‘G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée’, and with a fully contemporary pencilled caption: ‘The Diadem taken from the top of Aorai’; unmounted, in good condition with some very light creasing. Provenance: Found loose at the rear of an album of photographs of Tahiti, the Marquesas and …

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  • [TAHITI] Papeete from the Signal House, circa 1885

    # 30341

    SPITZ Charles Georges (1857-1894); YOUNG, James Lyle (1849-1929), collector (attributed)

    [TAHITI] Papeete from the Signal House, circa 1885

    Albumen print, 128 x 216 mm, verso wet stamped ‘G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée’, and with a fully contemporary pencilled caption: ‘Papeete from Signal House, right side’; unmounted; a strong print with rich tonal range, in good condition with some very light creasing. Provenance: Found loose at the rear of an album of photographs …

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  • Three photographs of Wesley College, Melbourne, taken in 1904: the school's champion Australian Rules Football team; view of the main building; view looking across the school oval.

    # 30281

    Photographer unknown.

    Three photographs of Wesley College, Melbourne, taken in 1904: the school’s champion Australian Rules Football team; view of the main building; view looking across the school oval.

    Three sepia tone gelatin silver photographs, each 70 x 90 mm, printed on Kodak postcard stock (89 x 138 mm), all mailed from Melbourne and addressed to Master Norman Hart in Launceston, Tasmania (postmarks dated 28 June 1904; 19 September 1904; 14 November 1904), the fronts with handwritten messages signed W. H. (William Hart?) which …

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  • View of Sydney Harbour from the Botanic Gardens, circa 1885.

    # 30070

    Photographer unknown.

    View of Sydney Harbour from the Botanic Gardens, circa 1885.

    Albumen print photograph, 152 x 207 mm, laid down on its original 19th-century album page of thin card, 315 x 245 mm; both the print and mount are in fine condition. This view was most likely taken by Charles Bayliss (or possibly John Paine). It looks northeast across the harbour from close to the foreshore …

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  • Virgin forest, Karridale Timber Station, southwest Western Australia, 1901.

    # 29990

    [GREENHAM & EVANS]

    Virgin forest, Karridale Timber Station, southwest Western Australia, 1901.

    Albumen print photograph, 140 x 200 mm; manuscript caption in the negative ‘Virgin Forest, Karridale Timber Station’; laid down on a section of the original album mount of thin card; a superb print with beautiful tones, in fine condition. In the left foreground two men can be seen, dismounted beside their horses in the dense …

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