IDNO

P.98952.GCUM

Description

“Baron Anatole von Hugel. Clubs. Fiji. Arthur Gordon.” [Gordon Cumming’s annotation, JD 6/1/2012]

Posed portrait of 'The rival collectors’, consisting of Baron von Hügel (lower left), Captain Knollys and Arthur Gordon’s private assistant, A.J.L. Gordon, playfully eyeing some Fijian clubs.
Photograph by Francis Dufty’s studio, Levuka, 18 August 1875. [JD 9/23/2013]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Anatole Von Hugel; Arthur J.L. Gordon; Captain Knollys

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

?Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica

Date

18 August 1875

Collection Name

Gordon Cumming Collection

Source

Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This album has been transferred from CUMMA’s Object Collections (original accession number Z 4152), into the Photographic Collections, and catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One.

P.98869.GCUM to P.99045.GCUM are in A.169.GCUM.

CUMAA Exhibition: This album open at this page was displayed in Collected Sights in the section, The Collections with the descriptive label: “The personal album of artist Constance Gordon Cumming who visited Fiji in 1875 as a guest of Sir Arthur Gordon, the British Governor. The album contains carte-de-visite, cabinet cards and vignettes of her family, friends and acquaintances, studio photographs from Fiji, and photographic reproductions of her fine watercolours.” [A. Nadin, 16/10/2003]

Related Image: The same clubs and two of the three people are depicted in P.98976.GCUM. [JD 22/5/2008]

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 7/1/2012]

MAA Exhibition: This photograph was included in the 'Von Hügel’s Fijian Cabinet' text panel for the 'Introduction Case', in the Maudslay Gallery during its re-display, May 2012, with the caption:
"‘The rival collectors’ Baron von Hügel (lower left), Captain Knollys and Arthur Gordon’s assistant A.J.L. Gordon playing eying some Fijian clubs.
Photograph by Francis Dufty’s studio, Levuka, 18 August 1875. MAA P.98952.GCUM" [JD 9/21/2013]