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836877
  • Title
    Mosaic portrait photograph of members of the first Legislative Assembly of New South Wales under the Electoral Reform Act of 1858, 1859 / Edward [i.e. Edwin] Dalton, photographer
  • Creator
  • Call number
    MPG/84
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    Sydney : Royal Photographic Establishment, 1859
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    836877
  • Physical Description
    1 albumen photoprint - oval shape, with separate key beneath, trimmed edges on card 48.8 x 33.2 cm (irregular)
  • Scope and Content
    Two of the portraits, lower centre (78.William Russell and 79. William Macleay) appear to be from drawings; others are from photographs. The printed key (part missing, lower left) includes the names of members with the districts they represented.
  • Finding Aids
    Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 697 -
  • Description source

    Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
  • General note

    Title based on information which appears as part of the image, upper and lower edges, within decorative border.

    A copy of the complete key, list of each sitter, copies of references cited and notes on a work held at Parliament House, Sydney, which may be the master photographed for the production of copies, are filed at PXn 697 (see Finding Aids)

    Transferred from MPG/N.S.W. Parliament, 1987
  • Attributions / conjectures

    Attributed to Edward Dalton on the basis of note of the announcement by 'Mr. E. Dalton' of 'his preparation of a sheet collection of the portraits of all the members of the Legislative Assembly under the First Reform Parliament ... ', and comment on 'Mr. Dalton's group of the heads of the Assembly, being the original picture from which the smaller published sheet is reproduced ...', in Sydney Morning Herald, Sept. 13, 1859, p.12, col. 3 and Dec. 20, 1859, p.5., col.1.
  • Date note

    Dated from information printed beneath key: 'Photographed and published at the Royal Photographic Establishment, Sydney, October, 1859'.
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