Potts Point taken from The Domain and Woolloomooloo taken from the water’s edge, two photographs attributed to William Bradley, Dalton’s Royal Photographic Gallery

PXB 1759

fonds

probably 1863-1864

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9655138

2 photographic prints - albumen, on card mount - mount 63 x 103 mm

Dalton's Royal Photographic Gallery was one of the names for the studio run by Edwin Dalton from 1858 until the mid-1860s. By 1865 he had sold his business, which continued to operate under his name, and returned to England.

William Bradley was a painter and professional photographer who worked in various businesses and locations in Sydney in the second half of the nineteenth century. He joined Edwin Dalton's George Street studio in late 1858. In 1867 he claimed he had been 'for 6 years sole photographer at Dalton’s’.

References:
Library acquisition file
Lennon, Jane. "William Bradley". Design & Art Australia Online. Accessed 27 September 2022. https://www.daao.org.au/bio/william-bradley/biography/

Held in France prior to acquisition by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

The first photographs looks north-east across Woolloomooloo Bay towards Potts Point from The Domain, about half way along Mrs. Macquarie’s Point. A man is standing in the foreground and North Head can be seen in the distance.

The second photograph looks south-east across Woolloomooloo Bay towards Potts Point. The streets and buildings of Woolloomooloo and East Sydney are visible. In the foreground is is a masted ship moored to the shore.

French, English

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

On the back of the first photograph, written in pencil, 'Un view du Port-Jakson'. Underneath this, written in ink, 'Une vue du Port-Jakson. Sidney-Australie'.

On the back of the second photograph, written in pencil, 'Woolloomooloo Bay', 'Vue de Sidney prise du parc.' In ink, underneath this, 'Une vue de Sidney, prise de Hide-parc. Australie'. Photographer's imprint in centre, 'Dalton's Royal Photographic Gallery, 320 George Street, Sydney'.

Dated from the only years Dalton’s Gallery was at 320 George Street, Sydney according to The Mechanical Eye in Australia : Photography 1841-1900 / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury ; with Assistance from Con Tanre. Oxford University Press, 1985.