IDNO

P.64351.RDG

Description

Studio portrait of a group of two Aboriginal men, four women, a child, and three dogs. The man on the left holds an axe, and the man on the right holds a spear. The women wear bead neck ornaments, and both the men and women have chest cicatrisations. [JD 16/10/2008]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Brisbane

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Marquis, Daniel [Photographer]; Metcalfe, D.F., Imperial Photo Company, Brisbane

Collector / Expedition

Macfie, John William; Ridgeway, William

Date

circa 1868 - 1882

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Macfie, J. N.Ridgeway, William

Format

Carte-de-visite; Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.64340.RDG to P.64362.RDG were found loose inside A.144.RDG. The album was found in the envelope now numbered C428/ which was formerly kept in wooden Drawer II.

Related Image: A photograph with the same studio backdrop is held at the National Library of Australia, ref nla.pic-vn3510476, with the following information:
Title: An Aboriginal group, ca. 1868 [picture] /
Description: Title from Lawson Menzies catalogue, 27-28 June 2005.; Condition: Stained, discoloured.; Inscriptions: "Courret Hermanos, 71, Calle del Palacio, 71, Lima"--Printed lower left. "N"--Printed lower right. "Courret Hermanos, succesores de Maunoury, Corresponsal de la Casa, Nadar de Paris. Lima"--Printed on verso. "Valparaiso, Chile"; "Native of Valparaiso"--In pencil on verso. "Dr Ridgway 1869"--In ink on verso.; In 1861 French photographers, Eugenio Maunoury and brothers Eugenio and Aquiles Courret, were in partnership in Lima, Peru. Maunoury, a correspondent of French photographer, Felix Nadar, 1820-1910, of Paris, was permitted under licence from Nadar to use the Nadar logos printed in red ink on his photographs, an N on the front and Nadar on the verso. The Courret brothers acquired Maunoury's share of the studio in 1865 and continued using the Nadar logo until 1868.--Reference: Archivo fotografico Courret de la Biblioteca Nacional de Peru.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3510476; Purchased at Lawson Menzies Auction, 2005.
Subject: Aboriginal Australians -- Chile -- Valparaiso -- Portraits.
Publisher: [ca. 1868]
Image number: nla.pic-vn3510476
Contributor: Courret Hermanos.
Format: 1 photograph on carte- de-visite : albumen image 5.3 x 8.4 cm., on carte de visite 6.5 x 10.3 cm.
Managed by: Item held by National Library of Australia
Date or place: 1868
[Source: www.pictureaustralia.org/apps/pictureaustralia?action=PADisplay&mode=display&rs=resultset-490899&no=113, JD 16/10/2008]

Related Image: Same image held at Pitt Rivers Museum, reference 1998.249.7.13, with the following information:
Photographer: ?Daniel Marquis
Date of Photo: 1868 circa
Country: Australia
Region/Place: Queensland; Brisbane
Format: Print Black & White
Size: H = 58 mm W = 89 mm
Acquisition: Purchased 1901
Description: Two men, one with a European axe, the other with a spear, stand behind four seated women and a child. All wear draped cloth lower garments; the women wear neck ornaments. Three sleeping dogs complete the picture. Studio background with painted curtain and window.
Publications history: Reproduced as Figure 211 (Australien Tafel 2) with the caption 'Australier (Familie)' in Carl Dammann's Anthropologisch-Ethnologisches Album (1873-6). [CM 14/07/2015]
The original print which Dammann copied was collected by a German, Julius Ferdinand Berini, who was resident in Brisbane until 1869 and who subsequently shared Australian photographs with Dammann. Another Dammann copy of this photograph is in the British Museum collection (Oc,A3.49) with an inscription on the reverse stating 'Dr Berini', indicating that he was the source of the original. [CM 13/07/2015]
Michael Aird has suggested the photographer as being Daniel Marquis. See Related Documents File [Berini] [CM 14/07/2015]" [Source: http://databases.prm.ox.ac.uk/fmi/webd/Photos_PRM, JD 10/09/2018]

Photographer: D F Metcalfe’s dates and locations from Alan Davies’ and Peter Stanbury’s book The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900:
1861-1891 - Queen Street, Brisbane
cdv - George Street, Brisbane: Imperial Photo Co, late D Marquis
1891-1892 - Mellor Street, Gympie
1892 - Mary Street, Gympie [JD 16/10/2008]

Date: The date of photo has been amended to match with the related print given above. [JD 16/10/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 16/10/2008]