• Title
  Arnold Foldesy, violincellist - portrait, 1905 / Talma & Co., 374 George St., Sydney. and at Melbourne
• Creator
  Talma & Co.
• Call number
  P1/588
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1905
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  448153
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 platinum photoprint - image, 18.8 x 13.4 cm. ; mount (trimmed), 30 x 20 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  American soprano Elizabeth Parkina headed a concert party, including the 22 year old Hungarian cellist Arnold Foldesy (and New Zealand flautist John Amadio, later the husband of Florence Austral), to Australia in 1905. "It was the strongest combination to visit Australia for a long time and a pleasant change from companies which consisted of one star and several mediocrities as padding, said the Sydney Mail. It was also pleasant for Australians to hear a concert company of artists on the threshold of their careers, instead of those who had decided to pay a long-delayed visit to this part of the world before they retired; [the common complaint about has-beens visiting for J.C. Williamson's]. Foldesy displayed brilliant virtuosity in his cello-playing." -- Source: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (p.144)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Foldesy, Arnold (BM), February 2010
  Digital order no:a4215087
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographer's stamps on lower edge of the photograph and mount
  Goody from Foldesy -- signature on lower edge of the mount
• Name
  Foldesy, Arnold, 1882-1940
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  cellists
  Hungarians
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3217161

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