Album of overseas views including Farm Cove, Sydney, 1875 and early scene of tennis at Fort Macquarie, 1878; and group portrait

PXA 1370

fonds

ca. 1875-1878 (earliest date taken from Ships on the Australian Station / John Bastock)

Graphic Materials, Photographs

152918

1 album (42 photographic prints) - albumen - 25.5 x 33.0 cm
1 photograph - albumen - 14.8 x 20.0 cm

ALBUM
1. Farm Cove, Sydney, [1875], H.M.S. Alacrity [HMS Conflict], H.M.S. Pearl, and H.M.S. Rosario / [photographed by Freeman Brothers]
2. [Point de Galle - harbour]
3. Point de Galle - harbour
4. Backwall[?] Ceylon
5. Ade[?]
6. Suez Canal
7. Cairo
8. Porte et Mosque de la Cairo / A. Beats
9. Mosque and tomb of Kail Bey
10. Mosque of Omar and [?]
11. Sphinx and the Great Pyramid
12. Colosses of Memnon / A. Beats
13. Panorama of the Paska's Palace - Alexandria
14. St Mark's Square - Alexandria
15. Alexandria
16. Pompey's Pillar - Alexandria / A. Beats
17. Island of Philoe / A. Beats
18. The Erechtheum - Athens
19. The Parthenon - Athens
20. [Venice?]
21. The Rialto - Venice
22. Grand Canal - Venice
23. St Marks Venice
24. The Campanile and the Doge's Palace
25. Council Chamber - Doge's Palace
26. Lago di Como - Bellagio
27. Bellagio - Lago di Como
28. Malta - Dockyard Creek
29. Malta - Valletta [?] [?]
30. Malta - Pieta and Msida Creeks
31. Malta - Floriana & Granaries
32. Malta - Entrance to Grand Harbor [i.e. Harbour]
33. Quarantine Harbour - Caropas[?] Point - Gibraltar
34. Taken from the [?] Ground - Gibraltar
35. Moorish Castle - Gibraltar
36. Bird's eye view of Leonka - [?] - Fiji
37. Fiji - Government House
38. Fiji - Native Village
39. [Unidentified view]
40. [Group portrait on board ship]
41. [Group portrait]
42. Captain Murray's Lawn Tennis, Fort Macquarie 1878

PHOTOGRAPH
[Group portrait] / James Robinson, High St., Carlton Estate

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Mostly titled from captions below images

Schooner on left of Farm Cove view identified as HMS Conflict and not HMS Alacrity as captioned.

Reference:
Ships on the Australian Station / John Bastock. Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. : Child & Associates, 1988, pp.58-59

Farm Cove view (p.1). Original wet plate photonegative held at Freeman Studio Pty Ltd, Sydney.

Scraps on front cover of album

Dated by cataloger from collection