Lands Department Building, Sydney
1987. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil on backing below image, photographer’s name, title and date on exhibition label attached to frame verso, 35.5 x 25.3cm. Laid down on original backing. Framed. More
1987. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil on backing below image, photographer’s name, title and date on exhibition label attached to frame verso, 35.5 x 25.3cm. Laid down on original backing. Framed. More
1978. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil on backing below image, photographer’s name, title and date on exhibition label attached to frame verso, 27.7 x 28cm. Laid down on original backing. Framed. More
c1860s/1870s. Eleven (11) albumen paper photographs, one image watermarked “BFK Rives” [paper manufacturer] upper centre, 10.2 x 17.8cm (approx. each). Minor tears or missing portions to edges, slight crinkles. Views include (1) A large party at the Beacon Light, Mt Wellington, Hobart; (2) Salmon Ponds at Plenty, near New Norfolk;..... More
1858. Three albumen paper photographs, megalethoscope format, titles and annotations in various hands in ink on two stretcher bars verso, 18.8 x 26.6cm (approx. each image), 23.2. x 31.3cm (overall size each). Foxing and slight soiling overall, each laid down on original backing and cedar stretchers with remnants of further..... More
c1860. Albumen paper photograph, 14.3 x 19.5cm. Soiling, foxing, tipped to original backing. Image is backed onto an original album page with pressed fern verso. Illustrated in Masterpieces of Australian Photography, Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1989, #27. This photograph is part of a six-panel panorama of Sydney, and appears in the..... More
1946. Vintage bromoil, titled, dated and signed in pencil in lower margin, 9.6 x 13.2cm. Provenance: Moffitt estate. St Paul’s Anglican Church is in the background. More
1940. Vintage bromoil transfer, outlined in crayon, signed in crayon on image lower right, titled and dated “Nov. 1940” in pencil in lower margin, 7.5 x 10.7cm. Provenance: Moffitt estate. Image shows the harbour and the clock tower of Newcastle’s former Customs House, now a hotel. The crayon outline was..... More
1938. Vintage bromoil, signed and dated in pencil on image lower right, titled in pencil in lower margin, 21.3 x 14.8cm. Provenance: Moffitt estate. A Sydney solicitor who took up photography about 1920, Moffitt joined the Sydney Camera Club in 1927. He experimented with paper negatives in the 1930s, producing..... More
c1884. Print-out paper photograph, captioned in pencil in unknown hand with photographer’s line on backing below image, 26.1 x 21.4cm. Repaired tear to image lower right, laid down on original backing. Captions reads “Nicholas Weekes, Robert Patterson Negus.” Photographer’s line reads “W.H. Schröder & Co., Photographers, 671 George Street, Sydney.”..... More
1961. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, annotated “no. 5” and “3105-o” in ink and pencil in various hands with photographer’s stamp verso, 24.5 x 19.4cm. Minor creases to lower corners, slight scuffing. Stamp includes address “9 Collins St., Melbourne C1. Telephone 63-4023.” Held in NLA. More
1967. C-type photograph, photographer’s stamp with annotation “EC 3905 EN” in ink verso, 25.9 x 20.5cm. Stamp reads “Wolfgang Sievers Photographer, 52 Edward St, Sandringham, 3191. Tel: (03) 598 4602. Melbourne, Australia.” Held in NLA. More
c1961. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, annotated “no. 23” and “3105-w” in ink and pencil in various hands with photographer’s stamp verso, 24.9 x 19.3cm. Minor creases to lower corners, slight scuffing. Stamp reads “Wolfgang Sievers Photographer. 9 Collins St., Melbourne C1. Telephone 63-4023.” Similar image held in NLA. More
c1976. C-type photograph, photographer’s stamp verso, 29 x 36.9cm. Stamp includes “Wolfgang Sievers, photographer. 52 Edward St, Sandringham, 3191, Melbourne, Australia.” Held in NLA. More
1888-1910s. Thirty-three (33) process screen and 148 photographic postcards (181 in total), some images captioned or dated in negative or letterpress, some with photographer’s blind stamp or studio line verso, 8.8 x 13.8cm (approx. each). Minor silvering or developing flaws to some images. Photographers include Brokenshire Bros, Broken Hill; and..... More
c1900–1910s. Pair of printout paper photographs, panorama format, each captioned in pencil verso, 9 x 30.7cm (approx. each). Some discolouration, minor chips to edges. Taken on board a ferry off Dawes Point, the first image shows the future location of the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point, and Circular Quay..... More
c1900. Pair of printout paper photographs, panorama format, each captioned in pencil verso, 9 x 30.7cm (approx. each). Minor chips to edges. One image shows pedestrians, trams and horse-drawn carts (including one loaded with wool bales) at Circular Quay, looking east towards Customs House; the other image shows the northern..... More
c1900. Printout paper photograph, titled in pencil verso, 14.9 x 20.2cm. Minor discolouration to edges. Image shows Como Hotel in the background, and a party with a photographic camera in the foreground. More
c1900–1910s. Pair of silver gelatin photographs, panorama format, each captioned in pencil verso, 8.8 x 30.4cm (approx. each). Minor chips and silvering to edges. The first image features pedestrians, a policeman directing traffic, horse-drawn vehicles and a tram at the intersection of King and George Streets, Sydney. The building on..... More
1867. Albumen paper photograph, carte-de-visite format, captioned “Hatherlie” [sic] and dated “Jan. 1867” in ink with “Webb & Son” studio line on backing verso, 7.5 x 6cm. Slight foxing, laid down on original backing. Located at 43 High Street, Launceston, Hatherley is an 1830s Italianate grand mansion listed on the..... More
c1880s-1922. (1) John Barclay Godson (Brit./Aust., 1882-1957). Henry Lawson’s House, Abbotsford, 1922. Pencil drawing, titled, signed and dated “16/9/22” in pencil lower left to right, 13.6 x 19.7cm. Foxing. Framed. (2) Phillip Street, Sydney [Showing House Of Henry Lawson’s Mother On Left] , c1880s. Albumen paper photograph, titled, dated “late..... More
c1890s. Albumen paper photograph, carte-de-visite format, printed studio line and annotation in ink on backing verso, 6 x 9.7cm. Foxing overall, missing portions to edges, laid down on original backing. Photographer’s line includes “Sydney Photo Co., 233 Pitt Street.” Annotation reads “Mr & Mrs J. Woodland.”. More
c1870s. Albumen paper photograph, titled in pencil on backing below image, 24.4 x 33.8cm. Slight foxing to upper portion, laid down on original album page. More
c1910-c1930s. (1) [Mark Foy’s Building, Sydney], c1910. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, 26.2 x 31cm. Slight silvering, minor foxing, crazing. Framed. Mark Foy’s Department Store, known as “The Piazza”, opened in 1909 on the block bounded by Liverpool, Elizabeth and Castlereagh Streets, Sydney. Since 1985 the building has operated as The..... More
c1880s-1913. Fifty-nine (59) albumen paper photographs, cabinet card format; 2 vintage silver gelatin photographs, postcard format, all 61 images in sleeves in an album, some portrait images annotated or dated in ink or pencil, and many with studio lines on backing below image or verso, 10.9 x 15.1cm (approx. each)..... More