General View Of Hong Kong
c1870s. Albumen paper photographs, two-panel panorama, titled in pencil on backing verso, 19.1 x 52.3cm. Slight foxing and fading to edges of image. Laid down on acid-free paper. More
c1870s. Albumen paper photographs, two-panel panorama, titled in pencil on backing verso, 19.1 x 52.3cm. Slight foxing and fading to edges of image. Laid down on acid-free paper. More
c1870s. Hand-coloured albumen paper photograph, partially illegible stamp verso, 20.7 x 26.9cm. Slight creases and small missing portion to upper left corner, not affecting image, and minor crinkles overall. Stamp includes “M. Neustadt…Export Hot Climate.” Shows two men manufacturing rao, the bamboo shafts for kiseru pipes, traditionally used in Japan..... More
c1870s. Hand-coloured albumen paper photograph, 20.6 x 27cm. Minor crinkles overall. Most of the wares displayed are likely to be made of bamboo. A related image appears in Ohara (ed.), Japan 100 Years Ago: Peabody Museum of Salem, E.S. Morse Collection/Photography, Shogakukan, Japan, 1983, p127. Italian-born Felice Beato was a...... More
c1860s-1870s. Four albumen paper photographs, each titled in ink on backing below image, 7.6 x 3.8cm to 7.6 x 5.7cm. Minor soiling, all laid down on original backing. Titles read: 1. Wife of a Sergeant of Old Madras 23rd Brigade; 2. Madras merchants; 3. Battery Barber, Madras; and 4. The..... More
c1870s. Seven albumen paper photographs, each titled, numbered and annotated “Cling” in pencil verso, 9.3 x 5.8cm (approx. each, paper). Minor foxing to some. Titles include: 1. Newspaper carrier; 2. [Sindh] man; 3. [Sindh] barber; 4. [Sindh] clerk; and 5. [Sindh] servants. More
c1870s. Pair of albumen paper photographs, two-part panorama, carte de visite format, one with photographer’s line on backing below image, each with printed photographer’s line and numbered in ink on backing verso, 5.8 x 9.6cm (each). Minor foxing, each laid down own original backing. Photographer’s lines include “Nicholas & Curths..... More
c1870s. Albumen paper photograph, titled in pencil verso, 9.2 x 5.9cm (paper). Parsee, also spelled Parsi (meaning “Persian”), is a member of a group of followers in India of the Iranian prophet Zoroaster. The followers are descended from Persian Zoroastrians who emigrated to India to avoid religious persecution by the..... More
c1860s-1870s. Three albumen paper photographs, carte de visite format, two titled in French in ink and one with photographer’s stamp on backing verso, 9.2 x 5.9cm (approx. each). Minor foxing, all laid down on original backing. Titles read: 1. Jeune Malais [young Malay boy], Singapore, and 2. Porteur d’eau [water..... More
c1870s. Three albumen paper photographs, each titled in pencil verso, 5.9 x 9.2cm (approx. each). Minor foxing overall. Titles read “Courthouse, Singapore” and “Scenery at Singapore [for two images].”. More
c1870s. Pair of albumen paper photographs, each titled in pencil verso, 9.2 x 5.8cm (approx. each, paper). Minor foxing overall. More
c1870s. Albumen paper photograph, numbered in negative lower centre, titled in pencil verso, 9.3 x 5.8cm. More
c1870s. Albumen paper photograph, numbered in negative lower centre, titled in pencil verso, 9.3 x 5.8cm. Small missing portion to lower left corner, minor foxing. More
c1870s. Albumen paper photograph, titled in pencil verso, 9.3 x 5.8cm. More
c1870s. Albumen paper photograph, titled in pencil verso, 9.3 x 5.9cm. More
c1870s. Albumen paper photograph, titled in pencil verso, 9.3 x 5.8cm (paper). Minor foxing. Annam was a French protectorate encompassing the central region of Vietnam. The Vietnamese were subsequently referred to as “Annamites.” Nationalist writers adopted the word “Vietnam” in the late 1920s. Ref: Wiki. More
c1870s. Tintype, sixth-plate size, in hinged case, 6.9 x 5.4cm (image), 9.4 x 8cm (case). Brass preserver slightly warped, minor wear and some repairs to case. The blacksmith is shown holding a pair of horse-shoes in one hand and a hammer in the other. This image has been married together..... More
c1870s. Tintype, sixth-plate size, in original hinged case, 5.3 x 6.6cm (image), 9.4 x 8.2cm (case). Minor crazing to surface of image, broken hinge and slight wear to case. More
c1870s. Tintype, sixth-plate size, in original hinged case, 5.3 x 6.6cm (image), 8.1 x 9.4cm (case). Slight crazing and oxidation to image, oxidation to brass mat and preserver, minor wear to case with old repairs to hinge. More
c1870s. Albumen paper photograph, numbered “171” in negative lower left, photographer’s line in letterpress on slip affixed to backing below image with title in an unknown hand in ink, 21.6 x 28.3cm. Minor foxing, soiling and scuffs overall, laid down on original backing. Photographer’s line reads “B.O. Holtermann’s Photographs, Copyright..... More
c1870s. Albumen paper photographs, two-part panorama, numbered “170” and “164” respectively in negative lower left, 22.8 x 29.6cm. Missing portions, minor crinkles, creases, stains. Provenance: Holtermann family. One image shows a building, L. Peake General Store Keeper, which traded in George Street, Bathurst; the other shows General Timber Yard, Lime..... More
1870. Ink and wash with pencil, initialled in ink lower left, dated in pencil lower right, 25.6 x 33.1cm. Old repairs and crinkles overall, missing portions and tears to edges of image, surface loss verso. More
c1870s. Watercolour, annotated in an unknown hand in pencil on backing below image, annotation is repeated in another hand on backing verso, 20.5 x 29.1cm. Foxing overall, laid down on old backing. Annotation reads “Old houses in Richmond paddock, copied from a drawing by Buvelot. He did a considerable part..... More
c1870s. Ink and wash with pencil, signed lower right, 13.7 x 21.5cm. Repaired tear to upper right portion of image, slight surface loss, foxing and minor soiling overall. More
c1840s-1870s. Group of five items comprising a colour lithograph valentine’s card addressed in ink and postmarked “General Post Office, Sydney, Feb. 17, 1840”, William Campbell’s visiting card, a newspaper cutting of an obituary, an ambrotype and a miniature oil portrait, most items accompanied by typed caption slips, sizes from 3..... More
c1870s. Albumen paper photograph, titled in pencil on backing below image, 20.2 x 27.6cm. Slight soiling to upper right corner, laid down on original backing. The Sydney Infirmary, built by Governor Macquarie, was opened in 1816 with one large central and two smaller wings. Today the northern wing houses the..... More