Lot 35
Australia and New Zealand
Photograph album, c.1880
Estimate: £500 - £800
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Large folio album, half morocco binding, containing 98 albumen print photographs, subjects including street scenes and scenery in Melbourne (including Spring Street and Collins Street), Lilydale, Sydney, Parramatta River, Adelaide (street scenes, environs and gardens, many captioned in negative ‘Sweet Adelaide’ with catalogue numbers), Lake Wakatipu, Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Milford Sound, Dusky Sound, Timaru, Christ Church, Lyttelton, Lake Pearson, Porters Pass, Bealey River and environs, Rolleston Glacier, Otira, Waikato River, Tuhuatahi, Wairakei, ‘Maori Chief & Whare’, many with photographers’ signatures and captions in the negative, photographers including Burton Bros of Dunedin, H. King of Sydney, Foster & Martin of Melbourne, Wheeler & Son of Christchurch, most approx. 14 x 20cm, a few smaller (including 3 portraits of Maori men and women), approx. 18 larger (23 x 27cm), and 2 (including view of Hobart from Rosny) very large (27 x 33 cm). The album also containing a further 59 albumen-print photographs of Gibraltar, Malta, Sicily, Italy, India, and Middle Eastern ethnographic ‘types’, late 19th century, various dimensions, similarly mounted, the Indian photographs comprising village, river and coastal scenes including native inhabitants
