Woolundunga Springs near Port Augusta, 1875-76

A$150 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Albumen print photograph, 170 x 225 mm, laid down recto of its original card mount, 250 x 305 mm, with manuscript caption in ink in a neat hand: Woolundunga Springs near Port Augusta. / Verdant vales and fountains bright, Trees that nod on sloping hills, caves that echo, tinkling rills. ; verso with old ownership wet stamp of W. W. Courtney, Chemist, Cheltenham. Phone 233 ; the print is in very good condition; the mount has some light foxing to the margins. Attribution and dating from the AGSA catalogue entry for the same image (Accession no. 20063Ph77.17). Harry Perry and his brother Frank worked from a series of temporary studios in the colony s north from 1876-1880. Of greatest note are Perry s 1875=76 photographs of the Flinders Ranges, which easily rival some of Sweet s images taken seven years later. (Karen Magee, Captain Sweet s Colonial imagination : the ideals of modernity in South Australian views photography 1866-1886. Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide, 2014, p. 138).

• Binding: Hardcover

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