caire nicholas john (7 risultati)

[Late 1870s]. Albumen print photograph, 135 x 190 mm, on the photographer's original card mount with printed caption below the image and descriptive text verso; titled 'The Wesley College', this is no. 27. from Caire's portfolio series 'The Public Buildings of Melbourne and Suburbs'; the print and the mount are both in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Oblong Folio album (ca. 34x40,5 cm or 13 ¼ x 16 in). 24 card stock leaves. With 77 mounted original gelatin silver and albumen photos, mostly from ca. 18x24 cm (7 x 9 ½ in) to ca. 14,5x19,5 cm (5 ¾ x 7 ¾ in); two smaller photos at the rear are ca. 9,5x15 cm (3 ¾ x 6 in). Over twenty photos are captioned and/or numbered in negative; seven photos with blind stamps "Henry King Photo, Sydney" in the right lower corners; nine photos with period pencil captions in Italian on the mounts. The first leaf with four mounted real photo and printed postcards, each ca. 9x13,5 cm (3 ½ x 5 ¼ in); all with period pencil captions in French on the mounts. Period full vellum album; gilt-tooled ornaments on the front board and the spine; decorative endpapers; all edges gilt. Binding slightly soiled, mild foxing on the mounts, a few photos faded or with mild silvering, but overall a very good album of strong interesting photos. Attractive extensive collection of large, well-preserved studio photographs of Australia and Tasmania, apparently collected by Italian travellers in the 1890s. The album opens with twelve photos of Perth and Western Australia, attributed to the local studio of spouses Charles G. Greenham (1853-1925) and Laura I. Evans (1865-1943); the captions are: R.M.S. "Omrah" in Freemantle. 14; Freemantle Harbour. 36; [Perth]. High Street. 76; [Perth]. Barrack St. 30; Karridale; St. Geo Terrace. 81; Mundaring Weir. 89; Perth from Terraces National Park. 28; Perth. 10; Falling Karri. Karridale Timber Station; King Karri, 242 feet high, 40 feet girth. G&E. About a dozen photos of Sydney by Henry King include several views of the city harbour and Circular Quay, St. Andrew's Anglican Cathedral, General Post Office with the clock tower, King Street, Sydney Spit with the Lyon's boatshed, &c. A series of views of Melbourne show the city with the Government House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Town Hall, Princes Bridge, Spencer Street, Federal Coffee Palace, Charles George Gordon Memorial, Royal Exhibition Building, General Post Office, Menzies Hotel, &c. There are also views of Adelaide (Rundle Street looking east, King William Street, Adelaide Arcade), Gippsland Lakes, R.M.S. Orizaba, portraits of Aboriginal Australians by Nicholas Caire ("Lubras' Camp, Maloga," "King Billy, Maloga," men spear fishing), gold miners, loggers, horse cart drivers, &c. Over a dozen views of Tasmania show a coastal lighthouse, the town of Strahan (by Albert Sargeant), Hobart (general views, harbour, Government House), Cape Raoul, country roads, "Huts at the Springs," "Fren Tree Bower," &c. Two smaller photos at the rear show the wharf at a Pacific island with the advertising of "Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd." The album also contains four mounted real photo and printed postcards, showing the ocean steamers, which took the travellers on different legs of their journey: from Ceylon to Australia (R.M.S. "Oceania"), from Melbourne to Tasmania (T.S.S. "Loongana"), from Sydney to Hong Kong and thence to New York and Liverpool. Overall an important, content-rich album of early, well-preserved photographs of Australia and Tasmania, by local studios. "Greenham and Evans was a commercial photographic company. It had studios in the following locations: Sylvester Street, Coolgardie 1895; Barrack Street, Perth 1895-96; 175 Barrack Street, Perth 1897; 151 Barrack Street, Perth 1898-1900 (Davies and Stanbury 1985, p.171). The company was eventually owned by Denis Brown Dease who arrived in Perth from Melbourne in 1893 (Cato 1955, p.179)". ( University of Cambridge ). "Henry King was born at Swanage in Dorset, England, and brought to Australia as a baby. Very little is known of his early years, apart from what can be gleaned from registers and directories: he served an apprenticeship under photographer J Hubert Newman, married Elizabeth Laing in 1879 and then entered into a partnership with William Slade. In 1880 Slade and King established a photographic studio at 316 George Street, Sydney, which Slade later continued as sole proprietor. King, while making his living through portraiture, eventually became known for landscapes, his images of the 'vanishing race' of Aborigines and the documentary photography which he undertook for institutions such as the AGNSW, the Australian Museum and the General Post Office (G.P.O.). By 1901 King was regarded by the 'Australasian Photo-" as 'one of the oldest and one of the most successful photographers in New South Wales ? a household word'." ( Art Gallery of New South Wales ). "Nicholas John Caire was born in Guernsey on February 28th 1837. His family, who were of Scottish descent, emigrated to Adelaide circa 1858. Caire pursued his interest as a photographer while working as a hairdresser (Turner 1996, p.392). He studied photography under Townsend Duryea and became a travelling photographer. Caire made a photographic tour of Gippsland in 1865 (Cato 1955, p.76-79). In 1865-68 he had a studio at 97 Hindley Street, Adelaide. In 1870 he married Louisa Master and moved his business to Scandinavian Crescent, Talbot, Victoria (Pike 1969, p.328; Davies and Stanbury 1985, p.140). From 1872-75 he was based at View Place, Sandhurst (now Bendigo), Victoria. In 1876 Caire purchased the Melbourne studio of Thomas F. Chuck. In 1880 he was active at 11 Royal Arcade, Bourke Street, Melbourne (Davies and Stanbury 1985, p.140). In the same year he was one of three official photographers to the Melbourne International Exhibition and he was later made photographer by special appointment to the government of Victoria (Turner 1996, p. 393). In 1885 Caire moved to 2 Darling Street, South Yarra. He occupied various studios in South Yarra until circa 1900 (Davies and Stanbury 1985, p.140). In 1888 he made a photographic expedition to Mt. Buffalo, organized by the Alpine Society (Turner 1996, p.392)." ( University of Cambridge ).  .

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good condition. 63 large albumen photographs by the renowned British born Australian photographer Nicholas Caire, in a wonderful Australian photograph album, comprising 36 views of Melbourne, 18 of New South Wales, and 9 of Ballarat. Most pages feature at least one photograph with the name of the town on a label laid down above the image, and a period title written in ink below. These include a number of very interesting photographs with identifying business signage or posters, including one of the partially built new cathedral with its protective construction fence plastered with posters. Ballarat's Mining Exchange building is another remarkable image depicting some 50 well dressed people posing in the street in front of the building. Caire (1837 - 1918) worked under the photographer Townsend Duryea; by 1865 he was making images of the Indigenous Australians in Gippsland. In 1867 he opened his first studio in Adelaide, and in 1876 a second studio in Collins Street, Melbourne, focussing on portrait photography. The invention of the dry plate process spurred Caire to take up landscape photography; he set up a new studio in South Yarra and began the landscape photography for which he is renowned. The Melbourne images include: 1. Queen's Wharf: buildings with carts, ships in the background 2. Queen's Wharf: the dock 3. Bourke Street: Buildings including Mechanic's Hotel 4. Russell Street: W. H. Blakeley Saw Maker 5. Elizabeth Street: Number 82, Tuttle & Co. Loans; Number 80, Brasch Piano Warehouse; Wilson Bes[---] Architects; and C. Carnaby Taylor. 6. Elizabeth Street: James McEwan & Co; McLean Brothers; J. McGuigan Chiropodist; Henry Holloway Watchmaker. 7. Flinders Lane: T. H. Nott Confectioners. 8. Burke & Will's Monument: T. Whitehead & Co., Picture Framers; manufacturers visible in the distance. 9. Flinders Street: Horse cart with sign painted on its side: A. W. Schunkrafft. A busy street scene; dark, very good condition. 10. Collins Street: Looking up the hill. Ferguson & Co.; Balderstone Taylor. 11. Collins Street: Centro Block, with Foster and Martin Photographer; S. Mullen Books. 12. Royal Arcade 13. Hotham Town Hall 14. Mutual Assurance & Co. Offices 15. Government House 16. Treasury Building 17. Fountain in Treasury Gardens 18. Mint 19. Town Hall: blind stamped initials at the lower left corner of the photograph. 20. Town Hall Organ 21. Trinity College 22. Law Court 23. New Cathedral: ca. 1881, under construction with outer fence plastered with posters including E. C. Waddington Photographer. 24. Eastern Markets 25. Fountain at Exhibition 26. Blind Asylum 27. Deaf & Dumb Asylum 28. Alfred Hospital 29. Sailor's Home 30. Presbyterian Church, Kilda 31. New Treasury Hotel 32. Wesley College 33. Independent Chapel 34. Menzie's Hotel 35. Academy of Music The New South Wales images comprise: 1. The Great Zig Zag: Blue Mountains Railroad 2. Blue Mountains: Blue Mts Railroad track 3. Katoomba Falls 4. Kuapack Gully Viaduct 5. Sydney Theatre Royal: Guild Hall, with sign "Chost Tonight" 6. Cook's Monument 7. Punt on Locklau River 8. Lithgow Valley 9. Sydney Harbour, Lane Cove River 10. Orphan Tower, Katoomba, Blue Mountains 11. Lavender Bay: a boat on shore at low tide 12. Sydney Exhibition 13. Bulli Forest 14. Sydney Harbour, Lane Cove River 15. Wooloomooloo Harbour: J. Ireland, Boats for Hire 16. Scene on Darling River 17. Woolhara 18. General View of Bulli Forest The Ballarat images comprise: 1. View over mines toward town 2. Band & Albion Claim 3. Benevolent Asylum 4. The Fernery - Botanical Gardens 5. Lake Wendouree: a small ferry departs from the dock, a smelter in the distance. 6. Sturt Street 7. City Hall: A. Crawford on the facade of an adjoining building 8. Bridge Street: Bucks Head Hotel; C. Morris Hatter; F. B. Wilson 9. Mining Exchange: with the full complement of personnel posing in the street in front of the building; Greville's Hotel visible down the hill. Oblong 4to album, 12 1/2 x 10". Three quarter brown leather and brown moire cloth; spine with gilt decorated raised bands, not titled. The majority of the images measure roughly 8 x 5 3/4"; a few in oval format, 7 x 5". A lovely album, the images mostly clean and crisp, with some light foxing on some of the pages.

Very large format albumen print photograph, 215 x 270 mm; dated in manuscript in negative lower left '1 Jan 1874'; the verso has a contemporary inscription in pencil 'No. 1' and a straight-line wet stamp in green ink whose lettering is unfortunately indecipherable; the print has three vertical folds, with a short tear at the bottom edge of the central fold; the photograph is preserved in the previous owner's archival mat, on which she wrote in pencil 'Nicholas Caire mount' - presumably, this is a reference to the remnants of a mount that must have perished. The scrubby, scarred landscape certainly makes it possible that this fabulous outdoor group portrait was taken somewhere on the Central Goldfields. Nicholas Caire was living and working in Sandhurst (Bendigo) at this time. There was a surprisingly large number of social events held in Bendigo on New Year's Day, 1874 - in fact, if truth be told, there was probably more entertainment on offer than there would be today. We believe the men in our photograph could have been attending the Oddfellows Picnic on the Campaspe River near Runnymede, to the northeast of Bendigo. A clue to their identity, though, might be found in the presence of the distinguished Indian gentleman who is prominent in the centre of the back row. On that morning - 1 January 1874 - a journalist in the Bendigo Advertiser gave a summary of all the local events that would take place in the day and evening: 'ODDFELLOWSPICNIC.The Oddfellows hold their annualpicnictoday, on the banks of the Campaspe, at Runnymede, and as the place is easily attainable byrail, and is a very pleasant place, and numerousamusements are to be provided, it is expectedthat there will be a large attendance.EAGLEHAWK FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.The Friendly Societies, of Eaglehawk, holdsports at the Botanic Gardens' reserve, Eaglehawk. A procession of the societies willstart from the Town Hall for the Gardens in the forenoon. Innocent sports andgames of all descriptions will be provided, sothat visitors will have every opportunity ofenjoying themselves.PROMENADE CONCERTS AND BALLSThere is to be a promenade concert at theSydenham Gardens given by Nicholl?s fineband while in the Oddfellows' Hall in theevening, Hallas?s City Band will give a promenade Concert. At Nissen's European Hotel,theBendigoDeutsche Liedertafel hold their firstanniversary ball in the evening.THEATRES. .At St. James' Hall Miss Blanch Stammers'and Mr. Garner will appear in the elegantcomedy of " The Happy Pair," and this will befollowed by the pantomime of "RobinsonCrusoe." At the Theatre Royal there will be avaried entertainment, concluding with the pantomime of " Beauty and the Beast."THE NEW YEAR'S RIFLE MATCHESThe annual meeting of theBendigoRiflestakes place to-day at the Back Creek Butts.Firing commences at 9 a.m., and as there arefive distinct matches, shooting will not concludebefore 6 p.m. From the number of entriesmade for the handicap matches there will, nodoubt, be a large gathering of our riflemen atthe Butts. That portion of the public also whotake an interest in shooting will, it is expected,pay a visit during the day to the convincingground. The Ladies' Trophy, which was subscribed for by the ladies of Sandhurst, consistsof a handsome silver tea and coffee service, andis on view at Mr. M. W. Bent's, Pall Mall. Thefiring for this, the principal prize, will commence about half-past one o'clock. Prizes of the total value of about £35 are to he competedfor.' Provenance: Private collection of Joyce Evans OAM (1929-2019), Melbourne.

Albumen print photograph, 280 x 230 mm, laid down on its original album leaf of thin card, with a fully contemporary pencilled caption in French beneath the image: 'Splitters fall (partie du milieu) haute 200 pieds'; a strong print with good tonal range, slight yellowing at edges; in very good condition (tiny amount of loss at bottom right corner, probably pre-dating the mounting). The State Library of Victoria holds another copy of this view (PCLTAF ; 302 P.16; in identical format, titled Foot of Splitter's Falls), which it dates to 1879-1881. Note: another waterfall known as Splitter's Falls is located near Hall's Gap, Western Victoria.

Albumen print photograph, 183 x 131 mm, mounted on a leaf of thick card removed from a 19th-century album, inscribed in ink on the mount '"Hanging Rock", Mount Macedon, Vic.'; some insignificant spotting confined to the edges of the image, otherwise a strong print with excellent tonal range, in very good condition. A very early photographic view of one of the most romanticised beauty spots in Victoria. The National Gallery of Victoria (Accession Number PH106.6-1988) holds another print of the same image, which it dates to around 1876. It is on the original mount with Caire's printed information, as follows: VIEW OF THE "HANGING ROCK," NEAR MOUNT MACEDON. / COPYRIGHT REGISTERED. ANGLO-AUSTRALASIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY, MELBOURNE. 10 Temple Court, Collins Street West.J.W. FORBES, Agent. VIEWS OF VICTORIA. / (GENERAL SERIES.) / No. 6. / VIEW OF THE "HANGING ROCK," NEAR MOUNT MACEDON. / The Hanging Rock is situated about 5 miles in a north-easterly direction from the Railway Station at Woodend, / and is a very picturesque spot. Its formation is singularly peculiar, consisting of gigantic masses of basaltic rock / thrown up on end in a projecting or hanging position. Our illustration represents but a portion of the Rock, as it / is not possible to obtain a view of the whole of it in one picture. The height of these large boulders of rock vary / from 150 to 200 feet.

[Melbourne : s.n., between 1905 and 1910]. Sepia tone lithographic postcard from an original photograph by N. J. Caire; 91 x 137 mm, recto with generic printed caption 'Australian Aboriginals', verso without publisher's imprint; not postally used; the front has a few tiny spots of foxing at top edge, and the back has a few fingermarks, otherwise condition is excellent. Nicholas Caire's famous and much reproduced photograph of the Cobb & Co. coach at Coranderrk was taken around 1904, the same year in which he published his Companion Guide to Healesville, Blacks? Spur, Narbethong and Marysville.