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Title
Andrew Torning, founder of Volunteer Fire companies of New South Wales, ca. 1876 / photographer unknown
Call number
P1/1791
Level of description
fonds
Date

ca. 1876
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
900670
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 photographic print - panel, with printed title - photograph (oval) 15 x 11.3 cm, panel 28.4 x 16.2 cm
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

For a biography of Andrew Torning, painter, scene painter, decorator, art teacher, actor, fireman and entrepreneur, see: The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 / edited by Joan Kerr. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992

There was no entry for Torning on the online Dictionary of Australian Artists. http://www.daao.org.au/ (accessed July 12, 2010)
Scope and Content
Torning is dressed in his volunteer fireman no.1 uniform
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
General note

Transferred from P1/Torning, Andrew (BM), July 2010

Digitised copy of this photograph at: Government Printing Office 1 - 18533
Digital order no:a4364091
Signatures / Inscriptions

"Was a master painter in O'Connell Street, Sydney (Elliott Bros. site), 1868" -- in pencil on the reverse

Title printed on the lower edge of the panel
Name
Torning, Andrew, 1814-1900
Subject
Fire fighters--New South Wales--Photographs.
Volunteer fire fighters--New South Wales--Portraits.
Topic
uniforms

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