• Title
  James Johnson, survivor of the wreck of the Dunbar, 1857 / [ambrotype attributed to Thomas Glaister]
• Creator
  Thomas Glaister, active 1854-1870
• Call number
  DG P3/38
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1857
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442154
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photograph - ambrotype, hand coloured - visible image 32.5 x 25 cm., in wooden frame 51.5 x 45.7 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Able-seaman, James Johnson, was the sole survivor of the clipper Dunbar, which ran aground below South Head, Sydney Harbour, on the night of 20 August 1857. All 121 passengers and crew perished. -- Reference: The Australian encyclopaedia / editor-in-chief: Alec H. Chisholm. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1958. Volume III.
  
  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
  Head and shoulders portrait.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Transferred from DG 300 in August 2018.
  
  Replaced frame at F 350.
  Digital order no:a128698
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attributed to Glaister by the Curator of Photographs, State Library of NSW, in 2004.
• Conservation note
  
  Reframed in 2000
• Name
  Dunbar (sailing ship)
  Johnson, James
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Shades of Light - National Gallery of Australia
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (May, 1992 - October, 1992)
  Mirror with a Memory : photographic portraiture in Australia - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (March, 2000 - June, 2000)
  Eye 4 photography - State Library of New South Wales (January, 2005 - May, 2005)

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