Photographic portrait of a woman in Edwardian dress made from Queensland and New South Wales postage stamps, 1905 / H Boughton

ML 1596

fonds

1905

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera, Paintings

9665657

1 collage (photographic print, postage stamps) - gelatin silver, ink, paint and gold - on board 31 x 21 cm, in frame 44 x 34 cm

The inscription on verso of the original frame indicates that this work may have been held in a private collection of John Harvey Looney (d. 2016) prior to purchase by the Library from Ancanthe.

A photographic portrait of a woman adorned in an Edwardian dress made of postage stamps with ink and gold gilding, and produced in an Art Nouveau style, with original frame.

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

Signed "H Boughton 05" lower right corner, with clippings "Grace Bros Sydney, Picture Framers and Mount Cutters, The Winton Graded Art Panels in six tints" on verso.
Inscription on verso of original frame reads:
"I have seen in a newspaper years ago, that a copy of the same as this one and by the same artist sold for $[?],000 at auction! John Looney.
Photograph stamps, paint and...H. Boughton...stamps on the dress are from Queensland and N.S.W. as each stamp of Australia had their own stamps before Federation.
Size 290mm x 190mm.
Private collection J[?]. H. Looney, Oyster Bay"

It is not known whether H Boughton was the photographer as well as the collagist or whether the dress follows the outlines of the original photograph.