# 45561
[MOORE, Maggie, 1851-1926] [WILLIAMSON, James Cassius, 1845-1913] NOBLE, Timothy
Studio portraits of actor and theatrical entrepreneur J. C. Williamson and his wife, actress Maggie Moore. Melbourne, ca. 1874.
$120.00 AUD
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mounts); versos with studio back mark in gold of ‘T. Noble, Artist Photographer, 135 Bourke St., East, Four doors from Russell St., Melbourne’; rectos of both cartes have some discolouration at upper corners and lower edges.
American-born actress Maggie Moore (born Margaret Virginia Sullivan) married fellow American actor and impresario J. C. Williamson in San Francisco in February 1873. The couple settled in Australia in 1874, where Moore became one of the most celebrated performers on the Australian stage, and Williamson perhaps the single most important figure in the story of the development of Australian theatre in the nineteenth century.
These portraits were taken soon after the pair’s arrival in Melbourne in 1874 by Timothy Noble, a professional photographer whose studio in Melbourne’s theatre district was frequently patronised by stage performers. Noble himself was an amateur thespian.