Studio portrait of a lady in a fine taffeta dress. Singleton, Hunter Valley, New South Wales, circa 1862.

A$300 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 61 mm (mount); verso imprinted Lyne Brown, Artist Photographer, Singleton ; a lovely crisp print with good tonal range, in fine condition; the mount has a bumped bottom corner but is otherwise clean and unmarked. A rare example of a carte de visite portrait with Lyne Brown s Singleton back mark. From the DAAO: Joseph Lyne Brown, professional photographer and photographic dealer, worked at Elijah Hart s former George Street gallery in Sydney from May 1854. He advertised in the Illustrated Sydney News on 30 September that coloured daguerreotype portraits and a wide selection of photographic imports (including fancy cases, frames and glass stereoscopic views) were available from his Photographic Institution, 197 George Street. At the exhibition held at the Australian Museum in 1854 in preparation for the 1855 Paris Universal Exhibition, Lyne Brown exhibited a daguerreotype portrait and a pair of views (Rain and Sunshine). The latter, taken by the collodion wet-plate process – which Lyne Brown was one of the first to popularise in Sydney – appear to have been sent on to Paris. In January 1855 he was advertising recent Improvements in PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS’ in Waugh and Cox’s Sydney Directory, proclaiming the superiority of his stereoscopic camera ( by one of the first London makers’) and his glass collodion pictures (ambrotypes) to the cumbersome apparatus and silver reflecting plates of the daguerreotype. He emphasised tha

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