Studio portrait of Lieutenant Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa of HMS Clio, Flagship of the Pacific Station. Sydney, 1872.

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Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); recto with a fully contemporary caption in ink beneath the image: Fredk. Metaxa ; verso imprinted Freeman, late Oswald Allen. Artist Photographer. Crayon Miniature Painter. 360 George Street, Sydney. Terms Cash on Delivery. Photographer by Appointment to His Excellency the Governor ; the print has some mottling in the negative and a touch of foxing, but is otherwise very clean, as is the mount. A notice in the Sydney Morning Herald , Tuesday 23 April 1872, announced that Mr. Freeman (i.e. William Freeman) had removed from his premises at 320 George Street and taken over Oswald Allen s former studio at 360 George Street a large building which had once housed Anderson s music warehouse and was now home to several smaller businesses. This is one year earlier than the date given by Davies Stanbury ( The Mechanical Eye in Australia ), who state that Freeman was active at this address from 1873 until 1879. A well-known photograph by Charles Pickering of HMS Clio Flagship of the Pacific Station between September 1870 and October 1873 riding at anchor in Farm Cove, was probably taken during the ship s visit to Sydney in June 1872. We know that Count Frederick C. Metaxa (Lieut. R.N.) was one of the officers from HMS Clio who attended a levee given by the Governor, Sir Hercules Robinson, at Government House, Sydney, at 3 o clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, 4 June 1872 ( The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertise

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