[Photographic portrait of a married couple, Sydney ca 1862-1864] / photographed by William Hetzer
[Photographic portrait of a married couple, Sydney ca 1862-1864] / photographed by William Hetzer
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Full title
Author / Creator
Date
[ca 1862-1864]
Call Numbers
SPG/205
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photograph - 9.1 x 5.6 cm (mount 10.3 x 6.2 cm) - albumen
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Fonds
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format of an unnamed married couple. On the verso of the photograph is an imprint of ‘W. Hetzer’s Photographic Gallery, 287 George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.’
The portrait shows the choice of an elaborate studio backdrop and props which likely indicates this couple had social aspirations. The woman’s lig...
Alternative Titles
Full title
[Photographic portrait of a married couple, Sydney ca 1862-1864] / photographed by William Hetzer
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
On the verso of the photograph is an imprint of ‘W. Hetzer’s Photographic Gallery, 287 George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.’
Date note
No date. Date based on dating the costume of the man and woman. In late 1860, Hetzer was the first photographer in the colonies to market the carte de visite portrait.
Description source
Titled by cataloguer.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Douglas Stewart Fine Books, August 2017.
Administrative / Biographical history
William Hetzer arrived in Sydney from Germany in 1850 and opened a studio the same year at 15 Hunter Street, advertising calotype (salt prints) portraits and views. Hetzer specialised in paper photography, which was a novel process in the colony, as well as stereograph views. He was assisted by his wife Thekla, who was one of the earliest woman pho...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SPG/205
Record Identifier
94RXgVB1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/94RXgVB1
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Reference code
1011033
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