Dame Nellie Melba, an aggregated collection of portraits, ca. 1890-1919 / various photographers
Dame Nellie Melba, an aggregated collection of portraits, ca. 1890-1919 / various photographers
Dame Nellie Melba, an aggregated collection of portraits, ca. 1890-1919 / various photographers
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1890-1919
Call Numbers
P1/629
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 fascicle (8 photoprints, some panel) - 36 x 26 cm
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Nos 3 & 9 were photographed on the verandah of Coombe Cottage, Lilydale, ca. 1919 [probably later]
Alternative Titles
Full title
Dame Nellie Melba, an aggregated collection of portraits, ca. 1890-1919 / various photographers
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Contributing Creator
Photographer's stamps [nos 1,2,4 (copy),6,8]
Photographers:
No. 1. Hadwell Clarke, 117 Ebury St [Lond.] SW
No. 2. Talma Studios, 374 George Street, Sydney
Nos 3 & 9. [Same, unidentified]
No. 4. [Copy] Dover Street Studios, 38 Dover St, Mayfair London W.
No. 5. Talma Studios, 374 George Street, Sydney
No. 6. Guigoni & Bossi,...
Notes
General note
Transferred from P1/Melba, Dame Nellie (BM), February 2010
Item No.1 forms part of Gerald Marr Thompson, arts critic and journalist - collection of theatre portraits, between 1891-1925
No. 4 Transferred to PXA 1019 in 2004
Digital order no:Album ID : 935400
Signature / Inscriptions
No. 1 "To Mr G Marr Thompson from his sincere friend Nellie Melba, 1909" -- signature on lower edge of mount
No. 2 "Nellie Melba, 1909" -- signature on lower edge of mount
No. 3 "Nellie Melba, 1911" -- signature on lower edge of [copy] photoprint
No. 6 "To my rival ha! ha! Dora, Nellie" -- signature on lower edge of photograph
Published information
No. 2 published in Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991, p.136
Contextual Information
Source
No. 1 presented by G. Marr Thompson, March 1938
No. 8 presented by A. B. Bertie, 1953
No. 4 presented by Miss Bedford, 1962
Nos 2-3,5-7 presented by unknown donors
Related Material
Item No.1 forms part of Gerald Marr Thompson, arts critic and journalist collection.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
P1/629
Record Identifier
9gkd3Rv9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9gkd3Rv9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
441613
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