River Yarra, Melbourne.

A$1,750 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[Circa 1904]. Panoramic gelatin silver print photograph, 230 x 570 mm, signed and titled in the negative at bottom left and right R. Vere Scott, Copyright / River Yarra, Melbourne ; on the original board mount, 330 x 690 mm, with the title repeated in calligraphic lettering across the lower margin; a superb print in pristine condition; the mount has some insignificant edge wear. Robert Vere Scott (1877-1944) was an Australian Pictorialist photographer known for his panoramic views. From 1918 he lived and worked in the United States, where he died sometime in the 1940s. [He] was born in Brisbane in 1877, son of a Scottish immigrant storekeeper father and an Australian mother, the seventh of their ten children. Based in Port Pirie, South Australia, Scott was working as a photographer when he married in Adelaide in 1899. The source of his training in the medium is not recorded. In 1900 he was listed as a professional in Broken Hill but signed his images in the negative R. Vere Scott’ and sometimes used ‘Very Scott’ as his surname, but also occasionally ‘R. Scott’ and ‘R. V. Scott’. After moving to America in 1918 he signed work Rovere Scott. Scott s most important work was in the panoramic format. Photo historian Gael Newton has determined from the 16.0 x 50.0 cm format of his photograph Camels and men gather at the start of the expedition to survey the Trans-Australian Railway that he was using a Kodak Panoram No. 4 camera released in 1899, or the No. 1 of 1900. These panoramic

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