Sun pictures of New South Wales : part 2, [1880] / album of photographs by J.P.

PXA 1119

fonds

1880

Graphic Materials, Photographs

457523

Microfilm : MAV/FM4/8576

1 photographic album (30 photoprints, 1 p.) - images 14.2 x 19.2 cm. , album 23.5 x 30.5 cm.

John Paine (1834-1915) commenced work as a photographer in Tamworth, N.S.W. about 1869 before establishing a studio in Waterloo, Sydney in 1875. His work was exhibited at the Sydney International Exhibition (1879), the International Colonial and Industrial Exhibition at Amsterdam (1884), International Exhibition, Calcutta (1885), and the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London (1886). He accompanied Commodore J.E. Erskine and Augustine Dyer (the official photographer of the N.S.W. Government Printing Office) on the Expedition of the Australian Squadron to the S.E. coast of New Guinea in 1884, on which the first examples of Australian Colonization through photography, was established -- Information from BiblioQuest International (online)

1. The Georges River Bridge and Como
2. Port Hacking
3. National Park, river
4. National Park
5. National Park, waterfall
6. Bulli forest
7. A bush road
8. A bush camp
9. Bullock team on the Bulli Pass
10. The Colo River
11. Austinmer, South Coast
12. Clifton, South Coast
13. The Nepean River
14. Ferns, Wentworth
15. The Weeping Rock, Wentworth
16. "The Sisters," Katoomba
17. Govetts Leap Valley
18. Mount Victoria
19. The Great Zig-Zag, Blue Mountains
20. The Helena, Jenolan Caves
21. The northern entrance, Jenolan Caves
22. "Helena," [i.e. Cave House] Jenolan Caves
23. "Coral Grotto," Jenolan Caves
24. "Crystal Cities," Jenolan Caves
25. The underground river, Jenolan Caves
26. The Hawkesbury River
27. The Hawkesbury River
28. Brooklyn, from Long Island
29. The Hawkesbury River Bridge
30. The Hawkesbury River from the bridge

Part 2 of 3 parts
[Almost] unique, this collection of Australian colonial landscape photographs is unrecorded by Holden (Photography in Colonial Australia), is not in the Historic Photograph Collection of the Macleay Museum (Australia's largest repository of John Paine images), and was not cited by the curators of the John Paine Landscape Photograph Exhibition, July 1984. -- Information from Berkelouw Books (online)

Microfilm of the 3 parts is held at MAV/FM4/8576