IDNO

P.87233.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty carte de visite studio photograph featuring a Melanesian - New Caledonian? - woman. 1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Oceania Melanesia; New Caledonia; Noumea

Cultural Affliation

?New Caledonian; ?Kanak

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa ?1870 - ?1880

Collection Name

Von Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Carte-de-visite; Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.87222.VH to P.87277.VH were found loose in the Museum’s paper archive envelope, VH1/4/7, which has now been re-numbered C512/.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “Oceania; Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka; ?Melanesia; ?New Calenonia”, but the print is annotated as being ‘New Caledonia, and Elizabeth Edwards has matched to the same photograph at the PRM, ref 1998.276.56, which is noted as being ‘Noumea’, which is New Caledonia. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 26/6/2009]

Exhibition: This carte de visit was one of seven loaned to Yale Centre for British Arts and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, for the exhibition and publication ‘Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science & the Visual Arts’, February - October 2009. [JD 12/4/2010]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One.