International & Australian PHOTOGRAPHY
19th Century Photography Collectors' List 119 2006

14 William Henry Jackson (American, 1843-1942)
1010. The Royal Gorge, Grand Canyon of the Arkansas, c1881/1885. Albumen paper photograph, titled and annotated "W.H. Jackson & Co. Phot., Denver" in negative below, 52.5 x 40.4cm. Laid down on original backing.
Mammoth photographic print by Jackson, a major photographer working in the American West during the 19th century.
$16,900
15 William Henry Jackson (American, 1843-1942)
1017. Veta Pass, c1890. Albumen paper photograph, titled and annotated "W.H. Jackson & Co. Phot., Denver" in negative below, 41.2 x 53.2cm. Laid down on acid-free board.
Dramatic image with two locomotives steaming through the "Wild West."
 $29,900
16 J.W. Lindt (1845-1926)
Shearing, c1873. Albumen paper photograph, numbered "38" in negative lower right, 20.6 x 15.3cm.
This is from a rare series, Australian Types, taken at Lindt's studio in Grafton and later printed in Melbourne. Illustrated in Jones, J.W. Lindt, p29; Coupe, Australia - The Photographer's View, p38; Stone & Garden, Squatters & Settlers, p81; Pearl, Our Yesterdays, p87."
 $3,900
17 J.W. Lindt (1845-1926)
The Maiden all Forlorn, Fernshaw, 1882. Albumen paper photograph, titled and signed in negative lower left and right, 14.9 x 19.4cm.
Illustrated in Shar Jones, J.W. Lindt: Master Photographer, Curry O'Neill Ross, 1985, pl. 53, p74.
 $2,200
18 Henry Beaufroy Merlin (1830-1873)
(a) [Main Street, Gulgong]; (b) [Woman Standing in Doorway, Gulgong], c1873. Pair of albumen paper photographs, carte-de-visite format, studio stamp and numbered "18278" (a) and "18329" (b) in pencil verso, 5.9 x 10cm. Laid down on original backing.
Studio stamp reads "American & Australasian Photographic Company. Sydney Office. 324 George Street." Illustrated in Keaste Burke, Gold and Silver, 1973, p130. (a) Shows "The shopping centre at Home Rule. S. Bibb's Home Rule Hotel can be identified in the middle distance near the second tree."
 The Pair
$4,400
19 Eadweard J Muybridge (American, 1830-1904)
Athlete Batting at Cricket, Plate 291, 1887. Collotype, series name, plate number, date and photographer's line printed below image, 19.4 x 39cm. Slight soiling to margins, tear to right edge not affecting image.
From the series Animal Locomotion. Illustrated and titled in Muybridge's The Human Figure in Motion, London, 1901, p69. "Expatriate Englishman Eadweard Muybridge, a brilliant and eccentric photographer, gained worldwide fame photographing animal and human movement imperceptible to the human eye. Hired by railroad baron Leland Stanford in 1872, Muybridge used photography to prove that there was a moment in a horse's gallop when all four hooves were off the ground at once [Ref: Smithsonian]."
 $3,800
20 Eadweard J Muybridge (American, 1830-1904)
[Discus Thrower], Plate 307, 1887. Collotype, 26.4 x 27.3cm. Slight soiling to margins.
 $2,400
21 Eadweard J Muybridge (American, 1830-1904)
One Stride in Eighteen Phases, "Horse Daisy", Plate 616, 1887. Collotype, series name, plate number, date and photographer's line printed below image, 22.9 x 33.1cm. Slight soiling to margins.
From the series Animal Locomotion. Illustrated and titled in Muybridge's Animals in Motion, London, 1925, p109.
 $3,600
22 Eadweard J Muybridge (American, 1830-1904)
Woman Using Skipping Rope, Plate 174, 1887. Collotype, series name, plate number, date and photographer's line printed below image, 19.4 x 37.8cm. Slight soiling to margins.
From the series Animal Locomotion. Illustrated and titled in Muybridge's The Human Figure in Motion, London, 1901, p121.
 $3,800
23 Nadar (alt. Gaspar-Felix Tournachon, French, 1820-1910)
Adam Salomon, c1855. Albumen paper photograph, titled in ink on image upper left, 19.9 x 15.3cm (irregular). Old handling creases.
Salomon was a photographer as well as a sculptor. Provenance: Andre Jammes collection.
 $25,500
24 William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800-1877)
Heriot's Hospital, 1845. Salt paper photograph from a calotype negative, annotated in ink verso, 16.9 x 21.2cm (image), 18.5 x 22.8cm (paper).
Annotation reads: "LA 29." Lacock Abbey (LA) was Talbot's home. This is plate 1 from the series Sun Pictures in Scotland.
 $29,500
25 Adrien Tournachon (French, 1825-1903)
Finery [portrait of a horse], c1860. Salt paper print from a collodion negative, photographer's line, title and text on backing below image, 16.9 x 22.7cm. Laid down on original backing.
Printed text reads "Phot. d'apres nature par Tournachon Jne. Finery, nee en 1853 - son pere, Malton, sa mere, Gipsy./3 Prix des Juments, race de pur sand Anglais." This photograph is from a series and is illustrated in George Eastman House, Photography from 1839 to Today, Taschen, 2000, p289. Tournachon was the brother of Nadar, a well-known photographer.
 $13,500