• Title
  Double photographic portrait of Frederick Frith’s assistant / photographed by Frederick Frith, [ca. 1866]
• Creator
  Frederick Frith
• Call number
  PXB 1582/8c
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca.1866
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442912
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 carte-de-visite - 11 x 7 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This double portrait was taken by Frith to advertise his skill. He used either a masking plate holder or opaque screen between 2 exposures.
  Reference: Snips and Snaps: the Friths: Nineteenth-Century Portraitists, Miniaturists, Caricaturists and Photographic Artists /Noel Tozel, 2018. Eye for Photography / Alan Davies. Victoria: Miegunyah Press, 2004, p.144.
  Digital order no:a128722
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Details of Frith's studio and its services stamped on reverse.
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  photographers
  self-portraits
  
• Place
  Collins Street (Melbourne, Vic.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Photograph and Australia (Queensland Art Gallery) - Queensland Art Gallery (2015)
  The Photograph and Australia (Art Gallery of New South Wales) - Art Gallery of New South Wales (March, 2015 - June, 2015)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3314430

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