IDNO

P.98955.GCUM

Description

“Roof of the dining room at Nasova - passage leading down to the dining room, Lady Gordon’s room and gentlemen’s rooms. Coral reef in the distance, and on the horizon Isle ...” [Gordon Cumming’s annotation, JD 6/1/2012]

Physical Condition: This black and white photograph has been hand coloured by Gordon Cumming. Duplicate prints of this photograph exist in CUMMA’s collections.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Near Levuka; Nasova

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

?Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica

Date

circa 1876 - 1877

Collection Name

Gordon Cumming Collection

Source

Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica

Format

Print Colour

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

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 2/1/2012]MAA Facebook: Image published on with the caption: "Travel writer and painter, Constance Gordon-Cumming (pictured below) was born on this day, 26 May 1837. She created over one thousand watercolors and was one of the most enterprising and intrepid travellers of her time – no easy task for a self-taught Victorian lady. MAA now houses many artworks she drew or painted while in the Pacific, including those pictured here. Happy 180th birthday Constance!
Image 1:
Portrait of Constance F. Gordon Cumming, as an older women c.1904
Gordon Cumming Collection
P.98869
Image 2:
“Necklace - of Whale’s tooth on Cocoanut fibre. Ear Ornament.”
Fiji circa 1876 - 1877
Gordon Cumming Collection
D.98877
Image 3:
“Roof of the dining room at Nasova - passage leading down to the dining room, Lady Gordon’s room and gentlemen’s rooms. Coral reef in the distance, and on the horizon Isle ...”
This black and white photograph has been hand coloured by Gordon Cumming.
Naves, Fiji circa 1876 - 1877
Gordon Cumming Collection
P.98955"
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