[Portrait photograph of Pearl Lindsay, Ambrose Dyson, Ruby Lindsay, and Norman Lindsay, ca. 1909 / probably by Lionel Lindsay]

P2/580

fonds

[ca. 1909]

Graphic Materials, Photographs

1010745

1 photograph - gelatin silver - 11.8 x 8.9 cm (paper); 11.4 x 6.9 cm (image)

The Lindsay and Dyson families knew each other well and were interconnected through marriage. Pearl and Ruby Lindsay were younger sisters of Norman and Lionel Lindsay. Ruby became well known as an illustrator and painter and married the brilliant political cartoonist Will Dyson, younger brother of Ambrose Dyson, also a political cartoonist. Jean Dyson married Lionel Lindsay. Pearl was one of the few Lindsays who did not achieve fame.

This photograph was probably taken by Lionel Lindsay at a Lindsay family gathering at the Lindsay home in Creswick around the time of Ruby’s marriage to Will Dyson in September 1909.

Source:
Library correspondence file.

Photographic portrait of the Lindsay/Dyson family (Pearl Lindsay, Ambrose Dyson (standing), Ruby Lindsay, Norman Lindsay (sitting), on early pre-printed postcard photographic paper. On verso there is a manuscript pencil text (possibly in Norman Lindsay’s hand) identifying the subjects.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
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