Suite of five large-format views of Sale and East Gippsland, circa 1880.

A$1,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Five albumen print photographs in uniform 215 x 270 mm format; versos with fully contemporary captions in pencil; a few edge nicks, otherwise in good condition, unmounted. The attribution to Sale-based professional photographer Frederick Cornell (1834-1890) is based on comparison with prints in the album of Cornell s Gippsland views presented to Lady Loch in 1885, now in the State Library of Victoria s collection. The captions are as follows: Post Office, Sale ; Falls on Wonnangatta River ; Bridge over Nicholson River ; Eagle Point, Mitchell River, below Bairnsdale ; Iron swing bridge over La Trobe River near Sale .

• Binding: Hardcover

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