Lot 142
'639 Australian Aboriginal N.S.W. (H. King, Photo, Syd(ney)'
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Exhibited:
- James Tyrrell (1875-1961) was a Sydney based publisher and bookseller whose customers included Henry Lawson and Norman Lindsay. The American authors Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stephenson are also known to have frequented Tyrell's Bookshop when they visited Sydney. Tyrell opened his bookshop in 1914 at 143 Castlereagh Street, Sydney which also included a museum that housed his eponymous collection of Australiana. Two of Sydney's most prolific photographic studios at the turn of the nineteenth century were run by Henry King and Charles Kerry, both of whom recorded early Australian history and anthropology and particularly portrait studies of Australian Aborigines. In the mid-1920s, Tyrrell acquired the photo glass negatives of both studios which he used occasionally to produce photographs for his own publications. The glass negatives were later purchased by Australian Consolidated Press which eventually donated them to the Powerhouse Museum. This is an original silver gelatine photograph taken from the glass negative once owned by Tyrell. It bears the company stamp of "Tyrell's Museum 143 Castlereagh Street" on the reverse and is thought to date back to the 1920s. These photographs are extremely rare in this format as they were not marketed by Tyrell and have survived in very small numbers. Literature:
- 1449 Medium:
- Fine Art Circa:
- Photography
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