Photographs - Portraits
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# 34592
ROUGH, Brian G.
Capturing Brisbane : the city’s first photographers, 1855 to 1901.
Brisbane, Qld. : the author, 2022. Large quarto (305 x 220 mm), pictorial paper boards, pp 137; biographies of individual photographers and studios, numerous photographic illustrations, glossary of terms, index; errata page loosely inserted; an as new copy of what will surely be a useful reference for collectors of nineteenth-century Australian photographs, as well as …
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# 34328
HUTCHISON & CO. (ELITE PHOTO CO.)
Aboriginal group, including a man wearing a king plate and a Queensland Native Police tracker aiming a rifle. Brisbane, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 108 mm (mount); recto with imprint of ‘Hutchison & Co., Elite [Photo Co.], 8 Queen St., Brisbane’; the print has some pale foxing scattered around the margins; the mount is clean and stable. This group portrait was taken in a photographer’s studio, presumably that of Eddie Hutchison’s …
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# 34174
FREEMAN, William (1809–1895)
Studio portrait of Lieutenant Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa of HMS Clio, Flagship of the Pacific Station. Sydney, 1872.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); recto with a fully contemporary caption in ink beneath the image: ‘Fredk. Metaxa’; verso imprinted ‘Freeman, late Oswald Allen. Artist Photographer. Crayon & Miniature Painter. 360 George Street, Sydney. Terms Cash on Delivery. Photographer by Appointment to His Excellency the Governor’; the print has …
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![[NEW GUINEA] Australian District Officers Linehan and Ryan with local "workboys", Manus Island (former German New Guinea), circa 1916.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11115730/2022_DSFB_0665-300x300.jpg)
# 33738
Photographer unknown.
[NEW GUINEA] Australian District Officers Linehan and Ryan with local “workboys”, Manus Island (former German New Guinea), circa 1916.
Two sepia tone gelatin silver print photographs on card stock, in identical 88 x 140 mm format, one with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil verso ‘W. O. Linehan, Lt. Ryan & some native workboys at Manus’; both in excellent condition. In 1916 Australian soldiers Warrant Officer N. C. Linehan and Lieutenant Harold Ryan were …
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# 34236
RICHARDS, George
A tinted wedding portrait of a young couple. Ballarat, Victoria, early 1880s.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); verso imprinted in gold ‘From the Studio of Geo. Richards, Art Photographer, Ballarat’, illustrated with an artist’s palette; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. An exceptional over-painted wedding portrait taken in the studio of Ballarat photographer George …
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# 34162
BURROWS, J. W.
Studio portrait of a woman standing in front of a painted backdrop. Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria, circa 1872.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount), recto imprinted ‘Burrows, Photo., Sandhurst’; verso with the photographer’s illustrated back mark surmounted by a crown and a pair of doves, ‘J. W. Burrows, Photo Artist. Next Commercial Hotel, Pall Mall, Sandhurst. (Late Chevalier)’; the print and mount are both in very good condition. …
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# 32754
JOHNSTONE, O'SHANNESSY & CO.
Sydenham Bowden and his young servant. Melbourne, circa 1874.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co., Artist Photographers, By Appointment to H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., and to His Excellency the Governor. 3 Bourke St. East, next the Post Office, Melbourne’; the print has some light mottling in the negative, but is …
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# 33714
NEWMAN, J. (John) Hubert (1830-1916)
Studio portrait of Joseph Grafton Ross, Sydney businessman and philanthropist, circa 1874.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 63 mm; recto with fully contemporary caption in ink at lower margin ‘Grafton Ross, Sydney’; verso with imprint of ‘J. H. Newman, 12 South Head Road, close to Hyde Park, Sydney’; the print has a faint oval ‘halo’ from its longtime contact with an album window …
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![[MELBOURNE] Signed studio portrait of Miss Fanny Oswin, member of the family of Kew pioneer William Oswin of Kilby Farm, Glass Creek. Circa 1875.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/12/21103606/2021_DSFB_9278-300x300.jpg)
# 33664
STEWART & CO.
[MELBOURNE] Signed studio portrait of Miss Fanny Oswin, member of the family of Kew pioneer William Oswin of Kilby Farm, Glass Creek. Circa 1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso imprinted in gold ‘Stewart & Co., 217 Bourke Street East, Melbourne’, and inscribed by the sitter in ink ‘Mrs. Creber, with Fanny Oswin’s love’; the print has some mottling in the negative and a couple of tiny marks, but is otherwise in …
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# 33552
An 1870s carte de visite album (without photographs)
[U.K. : s.n., circa 1870]. Large quarto (300 x 230 mm), full brown morocco with ornately gilt boards (edges scuffed, spine faede), lacking brass clasps; silk lining papers, all edges gilt, [25] dougle-sided window mounts of thick board with four “windows” to each side (i.e. the album can house 100 cartes); the first three “windows” …
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# 33507
PULMAN'S PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO [PULMAN, Elizabeth]
Studio portrait of Melanesian missionary John Richardson Selwyn. Auckland, New Zealand, early 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount), recto of mount imprinted in bottom margin ‘Photographed by G. Pulman [i.e. Elizabeth Pulman], Auckland’; verso blank; both the albumen print and the mount are in very good condition. ‘John Richardson Selwyn (1844-1898) was an Anglican priest who became the second Bishop of Melanesia and then the second Master of Selwyn …
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# 33721
ROSE STEREOGRAPH COMPANY
A Torres Strait Island man on Palm Island, North Queensland, circa 1930.
Gelatin silver print photograph printed on card stock; recto with printed caption across lower margin ‘The Rose Series P7307. Nth. Queensland Aboriginal, Palm Island’; verso printed ‘Post Card’ and with imprint of the Rose Stereoview Co., Armadale, Victoria, and brief handwritten message with racist remark ‘How would you like to meet one of these?’; mailed from …
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# 33391
FRITH, Frederick (1819-1871)
Studio portrait of Mr. T. K. Johnston, of the Bank of New South Wales, Melbourne. Circa 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 65 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Carte de visite / by / Mr. Fredk. Frith / The Prize Medallist for Oil Paintings, Exhibition 1854 / Formerly of Regent Street London / Edinburgh and Dublin / Patronized by / His Excellency the Governor / Life-sized Portraits in Oils …
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# 33023
HITCHCOCK, H. J. (Henry Jonathan)
Studio portrait of a family with their sleeping pet puppy. Southwell, Nottinghamshire, circa 1890.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 106 mm (mount), recto imprinted in gilt ‘Walter Barrett, Southwell’; verso with superb pictorial back mark worded ‘From the Studio of Walter Barrett, Southwell, Notts. Designer, Photographic Artist, Chromolithographer’; the print has some very light mottling in the negative, but is otherwise in excellent condition and very sharp; …
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# 31275
FREEMAN & CO. LTD.
Studio portrait of Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney, late 1880s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 106 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘Freeman & Co. Ltd., Art Photographers, By Special Appointment to His Excellency the Governor, 318 George St. Sydney’, and a fully contemporary inscription in ink ‘Cardinal Moran’; old water stain along the left edge, and a few light marks.
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# 33112
Photographer unknown.
An Australian family and their pet dogs and cats: a furry snapshot group, 1915-1920.
Group of 7 (seven) gelatin silver print photographs, format 60 x 85 mm, all mounted on sections cut from old album pages, in fine condition.