Andrew Torning, founder of Volunteer Fire companies of New South Wales, ca. 1876 / photographer unkn...
Andrew Torning, founder of Volunteer Fire companies of New South Wales, ca. 1876 / photographer unkn...
Andrew Torning, founder of Volunteer Fire companies of New South Wales, ca. 1876 / photographer unknown
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1876
Call Numbers
P1/1791
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photographic print - photograph (oval) 15 x 11.3 cm, panel 28.4 x 16.2 cm - panel, with printed title
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Torning is dressed in his volunteer fireman no.1 uniform
Alternative Titles
Full title
Andrew Torning, founder of Volunteer Fire companies of New South Wales, ca. 1876 / photographer unknown
Notes
General note
Transferred from P1/Torning, Andrew (BM), July 2010
Digitised copy of this photograph at: Government Printing Office 1 - 18533
Digital order no:a4364091
Signature / Inscriptions
"Was a master painter in O'Connell Street, Sydney (Elliott Bros. site), 1868" -- in pencil on the reverse
Title printed on the lower edge of the panel
Contextual Information
Source
Presented August 1918
Administrative / Biographical history
For a biography of Andrew Torning, painter, scene painter, decorator, art teacher, actor, fireman and entrepreneur, see: The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 / edited by Joan Kerr. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992
There was no entry for Torning on the online Dictionary of A...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
P1/1791
Record Identifier
1xqZW2wY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1xqZW2wY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
900670
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