James Johnson, survivor of the wreck of the Dunbar, 1857 / [ambrotype attributed to Thomas Glaister]
James Johnson, survivor of the wreck of the Dunbar, 1857 / [ambrotype attributed to Thomas Glaister]
James Johnson, survivor of the wreck of the Dunbar, 1857 / [ambrotype attributed to Thomas Glaister]
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1857
Call Numbers
DG P3/38
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photograph - visible image 32.5 x 25 cm., in wooden frame 51.5 x 45.7 cm. - ambrotype, hand coloured
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
Physical Access Conditions
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Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Head and shoulders portrait.
Alternative Titles
Full title
James Johnson, survivor of the wreck of the Dunbar, 1857 / [ambrotype attributed to Thomas Glaister]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Transferred from DG 300 in August 2018.
Replaced frame at F 350.
Digital order no:a128698
Attributions / Conjectures
Attributed to Glaister by the Curator of Photographs, State Library of NSW, in 2004.
Conservation note
Reframed in 2000
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Sir William Dixson, 1951
Exhibited in
Administrative / Biographical history
Able-seaman, James Johnson, was the sole survivor of the clipper Dunbar, which ran aground below South Head, Sydney Harbour, on the night of 20 August 1857. All 121 passengers and crew perished. -- Reference: The Australian encyclopaedia / editor-in-chief: Alec H. Chisholm. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1958. Volume III.
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Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DG P3/38
Record Identifier
Yoldx539
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yoldx539
Other Identifiers
Reference code
442154
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