IDNO

P.4919.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Man.

Portrait of a man sitting in a chair with a pice of cloth over his lap. Part of a figure wearing a long patterned ?dress or ?robe, which covers the whole body, is visible on the left [also appears in P.4921.ACH1].

Place

Oceania Micronesia; Kiribati; Fiji; Levuka [Gilbert Islands]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka (Dufty, Francis Herbert)

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionVon Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: A carte-de-visite of possibly some of the same women, and the same studio backdrop, is held at the National Library of Australia, reference nla.pic-an10975065-7, with the following information:
Creator: Dufty, Francis H., 1846-1910.
Title: Unknown [picture] / F.H. Dufty.
Date: between 1870 and 1879.
Extent: 1 photograph : carte de visite ; 8.3 x 5.5 cm., on mount 61 x 116.4 cm.
Context: Part of Dufty, Francis H., 1846-1910. Panorama of Levuka, Fiji, and portraits [picture]
Series: Panorama of Levuka, Fiji, and portraits.
Notes: Mounted with a montage of 5 albumen prints forming a panorama, and 11 other carte-de-visite portraits of Fijian and Tongan Chiefs and people.
[Source: www.nla.gov.au. N.B. Although this image is attribuated to Franci Dufty, it is more likely that the photograph was taken by the Dufty Brothers, Noumea. JD 9/3/2012]

Photographer: This print was provisionally unattributed, but a similar carte-de-visit is published on the National Library of Australia website with the attribution to Francis Dufty. Dufty’s Levuka studio is recognisable through the painted studio backdrop to represent a view out a window with shutters (note the knob added to the shutter that casts a shadow). This appears to be a feature of Dufty’s studio throughout the 1870s, although the idealised landscape ‘view’ changes around 1875-1876. The Photographer, Date, and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 16/3/2012]

This catalogue record was updated with the support of the Getty Grant Foundation [Mark Elliott 28/4/2004]