c1880. Albumen paper photograph, titled in ink on backing below image, 15.5 x 20.2cm. Minor surface scuffs, slight stains and discolouration to upper edge, laid down on original backing. The National Library of Australia holds a postcard of this image, hand-coloured prior to reproduction. Lake Tyers Mission, also known as..... More

c1880. Albumen paper photograph, captioned in ink on accompanying slip from original album, 15.5 x 20.8cm. Discolouration to edges of image, laid down on original backing. Caption continues “Victr [Victoria]. 56 feet girth, 450 [feet] high, 1200 years old.” Held in National Museum of Australia, with the comment “‘Big Ben’..... More

1864-c1880s. Group of three albumen paper photographs, each titled in ink on backing below image, 11.4 x 8.5cm to 12.1 x 19.7cm. Slight foxing, each tipped to original backing. Provenance: Christies, London, 1997. The portrait of George Sand was taken by French photographer Nadar (1820-1910). Sold as a group of..... More

c1881. Albumen paper photograph, captioned in ink on backing above and below image, 14.9 x 20.7cm. Minor foxing and retouching to centre of image, laid down on original backing. Caption reads “Taken at the Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy’s House, Brisbane, Queensland. Peter G. Grant, John Robinson, M. Inst. C.E., J...... More

c1881. Albumen paper photograph with pencil detailing, text including photographer’s line in letterpress on backing below image, 21.5 x 27.4cm. Foxing, laid down on original backing. Photographer’s line reads “C. Nettleton, Photo., Melbourne.” Illustrated in Calado, Ingenuity: Photography and Engineering 1846-2006, plate 184. There is an entry in the Melbourne..... More

c1878/1881. Albumen paper photograph, cabinet card format, text in letterpress including caption and publisher’s line on original backing below image and verso, gallery label on back of mount, 7 x 15.5cm (image), 11 x 16.6cm (backing). Slight silvering and foxing, laid down on original backing. Caption continues “Shewing the varied motion, the..... More

c1879-1882. Group of seven albumen paper photographs, some captioned in negative, some annotated in pencil verso or on old backing, three with photographer’s stamp verso, sizes from 10.2 x 18.6cm to 26.3 x 35.4cm. Slight stains, creases, repaired tears to some images. Photographer’s stamp reads “J. Paine Photo, Sydney [Aust...... More

c1882. Two albumen paper photographs, carte-de-visite format, each sitter’s name in pencil or ink with studio line on backing verso, 9.7 x 5.7cm (each). Slight foxing, laid down on original backing. Studio line reads “Slade [William Joseph], Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW.” Sitter Dominic Sonsee (c1850–1883), who was two feet in..... More

1884. Composite albumen paper photograph of 29 military Personages, inscribed and dated in ink on backing below image, 37.5 x 29.1cm. Slight foxing overall, minor silvering to image lower right, laid down on original backing. Inscription reads “Presented to Surgeon Beaney with kind regards, Caleb Anderson. Major Com’dg Reg’t P...... More

c1885. Albumen paper photograph, 49.7 x 41.1cm. Retouching and repaired tears to image edges and upper and lower centre, crazing, minor silvering. Laid down on acid-free backing. Similar image held in Library of Congress. See also items 17-18. More

1886. Albumen paper photograph, captioned “Plains between Wilcannia and Menindie [sic]” in pencil verso, photographer’s blind stamp on image lower left, 18.6 x 29.4cm. Slight creases and minor foxing to upper portion of image. Framed. From an album entitled, Views of scenery on the Darling and Lower Murray during the..... More

1887. Collotype with letterpress, title, date and photographer in text below image, 21.4 x 34.9cm. Slight foxing to margins, old mount burn. Held in Wellcome Library, London, with the comment “One of 781 collotypes which form Eadweard Muybridge’s magnum opus, Animal Locomotion, 1887. This work originated in an attempt to..... More

c1888. Albumen paper photograph, 49.8 x 41.2cm. Minor stain to image upper right, minor foxing to centre of image, slight crazing. Laid down on acid-free backing. Held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, with the comment “…George Barker moved to Niagara Falls, New York, in the early 1860s and..... More