In Port Esperance, Tasmania.

A$550 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[Title from caption on mount]. Between 1862 and 1866. Albumen print photograph, 190 x 240 mm, laid down on original album leaf, 270 x 370 mm, contemporary manuscript title in ink beneath the image In Port Esperance, Tasmania ; the print is in fine condition with excellent tonal range; the album sheet is entirely frre from foxing. A rare example of the photography of Morton Allport, the Tasmanian naturalist who, from around 1855, was active as one of the colony s pioneer photographers. Allport was a member of the Amateur Photographic Association of Great Britain and his landscape photographs were awarded several of the Association s prizes. The Allport Library (State Library of Tasmania) holds the only other copy of this image in identical large format, dated to between 1862 and 1866; it also holds a small, cropped version, 80 x 76 mm, being one half of a stereoview.

• Binding: Hardcover

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