Catalogue
Catalogue
Display Room
Object Type
Name/Title
[View of Parnell and Mechanics Bay, Auckland]
Primary Maker
Date
Circa 1857
Physical Description
65 mm. x 90 mm. (image -sight)
95 mm. x 122 mm. x 14 mm (case)
Level of Current Record
Single Item
Media
Technique
Subject Category
Provenance Details
The acquisition source found the cased photograph in an English county sale where the then owner had no notion of what it was or where it was from.
It was found at the county sale by Michael Graham-Stewart.
Public Access Text
Quarter-plate ambrotype.
Not laterally reversed (most likely mounted backwards).
Smooth mat dates from 1848 to 1858. Preserver, 1851 to 1859. Gilding pattern, 1850 to 1862.
Both Crombie and Webster produced ambrotypes from 1857 but Crombie was out of Auckland from September 1856 to October 1858.
Copyright
No known copyright restrictions
Credit Line
Purchased 2017
Last Update
11 Apr 2024
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