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8 cdvs of Aboriginal sitters
Italian text on the photo: '1873, Australia, Clarence river Nuova Galles Del Sud'
English translation: '1873, Australia, Clarence River, New South Wales'
The information below is taken from the report: List of J.W. Lindt photographs in the D’Albertis Museo, Genoa, Italy, prepared by Ken Orchard, (J.W. Lindt scholar), South Australia.
Date: 7 June, 2021.
1. J. W. Lindt, 1873 LM_f83
8 cdvs of Aboriginal sitters, including 2 portraits of "King" Harry
Neville, on top row, (c-d).
Man in bottom left pair (e-f) is also in the group portrait (Plate No.7
in this list).
Man in top left pair (a-b) is also in the group portrait, seated on the
RHS of Harry Neville. (No.7 in this list).
Albumen silver carte de visite photographs
insc: 1873. Australia, Clarence river, Nuova Galles Del Sud, signed LMD
Collection Castello d’Albertis Museo, Genoa, Italy.
Ken Orchard: I believe that the man in top left pair (a,b) is also the same
man as in No.25: Seated man with greying beard, in the Cullen Collection,
Grafton Regional Gallery, illust. p.122 Photographs are never still)
Identical portraits of "King" Harry Neville, on top row, (c-d) are also in
the SLNSW collection, and reproduced in Photographs are never still, p.24.
Harry Neville’s tableau portrait is No.24 in the Cullen set, (Collection
GRG).
Clarence River, NSW