60 Photography Lots 150–201 150 Kerry & Co. Album of photographs of Australia, early 1890s 24 ALBUMEN PRINTS (250 x 202mm., or the reverse),mounted on thick card, recto only, all but one with the photographer's blind stamp in the image, most with negative number and caption in the image, some with pencil captions on the mount, contemporary red half roan gilt, upper cover lettered in gilt "T. & E.A.W." (see provenance) PROVENANCE Sotheby's, New Bond Street London, Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History, Sale L17401, lot 91 Given as a wedding present in 1895 to Tom and Edith A. Whittle (of Felixstowe, Suffolk) by Edith's brother Hugh Thompson who had emigrated to Australia in April 1889 thence by family descent. List of the photographs: 1. Handwritten caption: The Heads, Port Jackson. 2. Printed caption: ‘1248 Botanical Gardens from Australian Club Kerry Photo Sydney’. 3. Printed caption: ‘Elizabeth Bay & Potts Point. 1700 Kerry Photo Sydney’. 4. Printed caption: ‘Manley, Harbour Side. 1667 Kerry Photo Sydney’. 5. Printed caption: ‘Circular Quay – East Side No 208’. 6. Printed caption: ‘George Street Sydney 578 [?]’. 7. Handwritten caption: ‘The Town Hall, Sydney’. 8. Printed caption: ‘Centennial Hall & Organ, Sydney, no. 223 Kerry & Co’. 9. Printed caption: ‘548. Gen. Post Office. Kerry Photo Sydney’. 10. Printed caption: ‘1923. Weeping Rock – Wentworth, Kerry Photo Sydney’. 11. Printed caption: 1775. Katoomba Fall from the Lookout Kerry Photo Sydney Sydney’. 12. Printed caption: ‘1771. Katoomba Falls Kerry Photo Sydney’ 13. Handwritten caption: The Fishing Rock, Clifton, Illawarra’. 14. Handwritten caption: ‘Cabbage Trees, Stanwell Park, Illawarra’. 15. Printed caption: ‘Giant Fig Tree [illegible] ft Circ. No 361 [561?] Kerry & Co’. 16. Printed caption: ‘1215 The Avenue, Lady C Bowl[?], N. Park. Kerry Photo Sydney’. 17. Printed caption: ‘1210 The Elbow. Hacking R. Kerry Photo Sydney’. 18. Printed caption: ‘1592. Camel Trains. Wanaaring Road. Warrego District. Kerry Photo Sydney’. 19. Handwritten caption: ‘Rosebrook Crossing. Coomera’ [?illegible]. 20. Printed caption: ‘1907. “Nerelle”. Princess, Moruya Tribe, N.S.W. Kerry Photo Sydney’. 21. Smiling indigenous man – printed caption illegible. 22. Printed caption: Wermugga Corroboree. Kerry Photo Sydney’ [An identical photo formed part of the ‘Wild Australia’ exhibition at the University of Queensland in 2015: https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/02/ wild-australia-photos-brought-light] 23. Printed caption: ‘Kangaroo. 436. Kerry Photo Sydney’. 24. Printed caption: ‘Emu and Young. 879. Kerry Photo Sydney’. $2,000–3,000 151 The Australia Album, 1972-1974 Leather bound portfolio of 52 vintage gelatin silver photographs edition: 6/8, signed 'Jon Rhodes' and inscribed with edition number on 3rd last sheet, 12 x 18 cm PROVENANCE Private Collection, Melbourne EXHIBITED These images were exhibited in another format at The National Gallery of Victoria, 1977 and The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 1978. LITERATURE A select list of published images from the album include: No.33, John Jakamarra - Papunya Tula, Genesis and Genius, AGSW, 2000, p216. No.43, Yumpululu Tjungurrayi - Papunya Tula, Genesis and Genius, AGSW, 2000, p219. This is a collection of 52 black and white photographs from rural and outback Australia, taken between 1972 and 1974. The photographs, gentle with a wry humour, are portraits of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people with an emphasis on the landscape in which they live. (ref: artist's statement) $4,000–6,000 152 Three early albumen photographs of Sydney and NSW, late 19th century comprising two photographs by HENRY KING (1855-1923) showing views of 171 Woolloomooloo Bay and Sydney Harbour, together with a photograph by JOHN PAINE (1833-1908) showing a view of Farm Cove, NSW each titled and inscribed on image in negative the largest 20 x 13cm $200–300
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