Goulburn punt at Seymour.

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[Title from manuscript caption on mount]. [1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on pink card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount with original manuscript inscription in ink at bottom margin Goulburn Punt at Seymour ; both prints have rich tonal range and excellent clarity; the mount has a pale water stain at the left-hand edge (not affecting the print), and the original Scots-Australian owner s name McMillan in pencil on the back. This early Victorian stereoscopic view was taken by travelling photographer John H. Jones, prior to September 1862 (see below). The image is reproduced on page 113 of the Bendigo Art Gallery s 2013 exhibition catalogue of Jones stereoscopic views, Her Majesty s Territories: Stereographic Views of Australian Sceneries (essay by Alva Maguire). Note that the present example is on a variant plain mount that most likely predates the BAG s views, which all have the imprint Jones s Photographs of Australian Sceneries . The State Library of Victoria (Accession no: H2017.75/77) holds the glass negative of this stereoscopic view the only other example in Australian institutional collections. Although the biographical information we have for John H. Jones (1817?-1872) is only sketchy, newspaper advertisements and articles from late 1862 and 1863 give a very clear idea of his modus operandi as photographic entrepreneur. At this time he was selling his images in organised exhibitions and Art Unions in

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