Photographic portrait of businessman Edward Neale Wigg, eldest son of Adelaide bookseller E. S. Wigg. December, 1868.

A$220 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount), recto with a contemporary caption in ink identifying the sitter as Edw. N. Wigg and dated December 27 1868; verso with the illustrated back mark of Adelaide s most prestigious photographer, Townsend Duryea, and contemporary note in pencil Son of E. S. Wigg ; both the print and mount are in very good condition. A fine and very possibly unrecorded vignette portrait of a bespectacled and bookish-looking Edward Neale Wigg at the age of 21, taken relatively soon after he had commenced working in his father s Adelaide bookshop, and prior to his marriage to Jessie Davidson in 1871. Prominent Australian businessman Edward Neale Wigg (1847-1927) was the eldest son of Adelaide bookseller E. S. Wigg. Born in New Zealand, he was educated at J. L. Young s Adelaide Educational Instituition, where he was an outstanding scholar. He entered his father s business on leaving school in 1867, and the firm then became known as E. S. Wigg Son. Following his father s death he became head of this extremely successful enterprise and remained so until 1910, when he sold his interest in the business to his in-laws, the Davidson family. From the late 1880s on, Wigg was a major mining investor. He served as a director of Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd. from 1890 to 1906, and as its Chairman of Directors, 1897-1899. He was also a director of the Lady Evelyn gold mine at Coolgardie, the Ivanhoe mine at Kalgoorlie, the Bon Accord Cape York P

• Binding: Hardcover

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