A. L. Gordon [portrait of Adam Lindsay Gordon, ca.1860 (ca. 1880 photographic copy of carte de visit...
A. L. Gordon [portrait of Adam Lindsay Gordon, ca.1860 (ca. 1880 photographic copy of carte de visit...
A. L. Gordon [portrait of Adam Lindsay Gordon, ca.1860 (ca. 1880 photographic copy of carte de visite)] / J. Weller
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
[ca. 1880 (photographic copy of ca. 1860 carte de visite)]
Call Numbers
P1/653
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photograph - 16.5 x 11 cm.
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
1 cabinet card photograph
Alternative Titles
Full title
A. L. Gordon [portrait of Adam Lindsay Gordon, ca.1860 (ca. 1880 photographic copy of carte de visite)] / J. Weller
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Transferred from P1/Gordon, Adam Lindsay, 1860s (BM), February 2010
Digital order no:a4216053
Signature / Inscriptions
"A. L. Gordon. Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own" -- in a later hand at lower edge
Inscription compared with a letter written by Adam Lindsay Gordon in June, 1863. Reference: Adam Lindsay Gordon's Australian Poems / edited by Charles R. Long. Melbourne : Whitc...
Date note
Cabinet card photograph is a later print taken from an earlier cartes de visite ca. 1860s -- Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, Jan 1997
Conservation note
Damaged at upper and lower right corners
Contextual Information
Source
Presented Dec 1996 (presented with: Poems / by Adam Lindsay Gordon, preface by Marcus Clarke. Melbourne : Massina, 1888. Location number: 821.8/G662.1/8 Mitchell Library, includes newspaper cuttings)
Administrative / Biographical history
For biographical information see Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.4, pp.267-269
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
P1/653
Record Identifier
9BvM0z09
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9BvM0z09
Other Identifiers
Reference code
134289
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