• Title
  [Studio portrait of unknown woman, ca. 1858 / hand coloured ambrotype attributed to Thomas Glaister]
• Creator
  Thomas Glaister, active 1854-1870
• Call number
  DL Pa 63
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca. 1858]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442151
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 ambrotype (whole plate, hand coloured) - visible image, oval 18.3 x 13.2 cm., in frame with gilt mat, 22.5 x 17.4 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  American-trained professional photographer Thomas Glaister opened a Sydney studio in Pitt Street in 1855. For further biographical details see The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 / edited by Joan Kerr. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Scope and Content
  Seated, three-quarter length studio portrait of a
  young woman in a boned bodice tartan dress with wide pagoda sleeves and embroidered white undersleeves or engageantes, holding a small spray of flowers in one hand.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Attributed to Glaister by the Curator of Photographs, State Library of NSW, 2004
  Digital order no:a128696
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  m/a 6776 -- pencilled on label on reverse
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  historical costumes
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eye 4 photography - State Library of New South Wales (8 January - 29 May, 2005)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3320292

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