1855, English, Photograph edition: Glass negative, full plate, 'Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W.', Henry King, Sydney, New South Wales, A...

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Physical Description
  • Glass plate negatives
Published
  • 1855-1900
Language
  • English

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Title
  • Glass negative, full plate, 'Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W.', Henry King, Sydney, New South Wales, A...
Other Contributors
  • Tyrrell, James Robert (Used)
  • Tyrrells Bookshop (Used)
  • Australian Consolidated Press (Used)
  • King, Henry (Used)
  • King, Henry (Made)
Published
  • 1855-1900
Physical Description
  • Glass plate negatives
Subjects
Summary
  • Glass negative, full plate, 'Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W.', Henry King, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1880-1900 A silver gelatin dry plate glass negative in portrait format. The image shows an Indigenous Australian man photographed from the waist up. He has short curly hair and a moustache. His head is turned to the right. The photograph has been taken in front of a plain back drop. The caption, studio number and studio mark are inscribed on the reverse of the negative. 75/​276 Tyrrell Inventory Number, 462 King Studio Number
Notes
  • Handwritten caption and studio number across the bottom of the negative reads '462 AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL NSW (H KING SYD)'.
  • This photographic negative was taken by the Sydney based photographer Henry King. It is part of a collection of over 1300 glass plates taken between 1880 and 1917, although most appear to have been made in the late 1880s and 1890s King was one of the Colony's most significant early photographers and although born in England around 1855 grew up in Sydney. He found work with the well-known Sydney photographer J. Hubert Newman and in 1880 established a studio in partnership with William Slade. Four years later he was sole proprietor. King quickly established a reputation for himself due to the high quality of his finished work. While King's income, like many other photographers, was dependent on portraiture he, like Kerry, is best known for his outdoor work. These views, particularly his city views, are justifiably praised and seem more carefully framed and printed than Kerry's. Outdoor views of Sydney make up the main bulk of King's work in the collection although, like Kerry, he took a series of photographs of the Jenolan Caves using magnesium flares. Henry King died aged 68 in Waverley War Memorial Hospital on 22 May 1923 following abdominal surgery Geoff Barker, Curatorial, December, 2008 References King, Richard, Australian Dictionary of Biography - Online Edition Joseph Leibovic, Henry King, 1855 - 1923, auction catalogue, Joesph Leibovic Gallery, Paddington, Australia, date unknown Newton, Gael, Shades of Light; Photography and Australia 1839 - 1988, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1988
Language
  • English
Image Number
  • 31066
  • 2440
  • 85/​1285-343

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