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Print
9680041
  • Title
    Portrait of a young woman seated at a table, Mudgee, New South Wales, photograph by H. Goodes
  • Creator
  • Call number
    SPF/3784
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    probably 1870s
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    9680041
  • Physical Description
    1 photographic print - albumen - 11 x 7 cm
  • Collection history
    From an album belonging to the Evans family of Bombandy, southeast of Mudgee
  • Scope and Content
    1 albumen photographic print in carte de visite format with some hand colouring of a young woman seated at a table with a book, taken by H. Goodes photographic studio in Mudgee, New South Wales, probably during the 1870s.
  • Language
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Inscribed "H. Goodes ; Mudgee" on recto and "H. Goodes, Artistic Photographer (near Dickson & Sons), Lewis Street, Mudgee" on verso. There is also the inscription on verso "Secure the Shadow ere the Substance Fade", a phrase associated with the category of postmortem photography, however it is unclear whether the young woman in the photograph is alive or deceased.
  • Date note

    Date range based on vendor information and fashion depicted in the print.
  • Subject
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