AUSTRALIAN PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS
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# 51614
WOOLLEY, Charles
Studio portrait of a young girl in an embroidered white dress. Hobart Town, Tasmania, early 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, 106 x 62 mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘Chas. A. Woolley, 42 Macquarie St., Hobart Town’; a superb print in pristine condition.
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# 51608
SYDNEY PORTRAIT ROOMS [STEWART, Robert]
Studio portrait of a young man posed in front of a painted backdrop with a subtropical landscape. Sydney, c.1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 62 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Sydney Portrait Rooms, 267 Pitt Street, Sydney’, surmounted by an Advance Australia coat of arms; the print and mount are in good condition (but note that the print is starting to lift at upper right corner). Robert Stewart …
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# 51609
STEWART, James
Outdoor portrait of a young boy in a garden, resting his arm on a chair. Hobart Town, c.1862.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso wet-stamped ‘Stewart, Photographer, 21, Harrington St., Hobart Town’; the print is in excellent condition; the mount has clipped corners but is very clean. Taken outdoors in a garden setting, this is a highly unusual colonial portrait photograph for such an early period. Whether the …
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# 51585
HASLER, Frederick
Studio portrait of a fashionable young woman. Melbourne, c.1875.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm (mount); recto and verso with imprint of ‘F. Hasler, Artist Photographer, 96 Elizabeth St., Melbourne’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. A lovely profile portrait of a young lady wearing a flamboyant hat. She strikes a pensive pose, …
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# 51587
POOCHEE, Biggingee Sorabjee
Studio portrait of a young girl. Ipswich, Queensland, c.1874.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 64 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Biggingee Sorabjee Poochee, Brisbane Street, Ipswich’; both the print and the mount are in fine condition. Davies & Stanbury (Mechanical Eye) list Poochee as active at his Brisbane Street premises between 1874 and 1878. This lovely vignetted portrait of …
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# 51577
HARTITZSCH & HANSSEN
Portrait of a mother and her young son, both posed with a book. Kapunda, South Australia, 1866-67.
Albumen print photograph, Carte De Visite format, 101 x 61 mm (mount); blin-embossed at lower right margin ‘Hartitzsch & Hanssen, Photographers’; the print has a few tiny surface marks, and the mount has lost the very tip of the top right corner. The little-known business partnership of Otto von Hartitzsch and Charles (Carl) Hanssen appears …
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# 51613
TURNER, Joseph
Studio portrait of a lady in half-mourning. Geelong, Victoria, c.1867.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 65 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Turner’s New Portrait Rooms, 66 Moorabool St. (seven doors above Little Malop Street.) Geelong. Prize Medal, Exhibition 1866. the print and the mount are both in excellent condition. Black dress, black lace shawl, black umbrella, black ribbon – but the black …
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# 51588
BURROWS, W. H. Carl
Studio portrait of a woman in nurse’s uniform. Launceston, Tasmania, c.1885.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘W. H. Carl Burrows & Co., Melbourne Portrait Rooms, Brisbane Street, Launceston. Portrait, Landscape & Equestrian Photographer; Bronze Medal, Sydney, 1881. Silver Medal, Calcutta, 1884’; both the print and mount are in fine condition.
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# 51605
T. HUMPHREY & CO.
Signed studio portrait of George W. Kelly. Melbourne, 1910.
Gelatin silver print photograph, Paris Panel format, 180 x 130 mm (oval), on its original card mount with the imprint of ‘T. Humphrey & Co., / Melbourne’; inscribed and dated by the sitter lower right: ‘With best wishes, Geo. W. Kelly, 2/8.10’; the print is in excellent condition; the mount has some very light foxing. …