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This scan from a book publication by Dan Sprod answers the description of a Thomas Nevin stereograph of a group at the Franklin Museum, Ancanthe (known later as Lady Franklin’s Museum), Kangaroo Valley, listed at the Tasmanian Museum and Art … Continue reading
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The Captain of the party pushed forward to the hut at a place called the Springs to have breakfast prepared for us. The water flows down the mountain to the city. It is conveyed by a channel cut in the earth (about three feet wide). The old man & woman who reside at the hut supply visitors with implements and cook what provender they may take with them for which 1/- per head is generally presented to them. We arrived there at 1/2 past eight & were glad to sit down to an excellent breakfast of cold lamb and coffee. We also enjoyed a draught of the cold crystal water from the murmuring spring. Continue reading
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Thomas Nevin’s funeral notice appeared in The Mercury 12th March 1923. This record also omits the middle initial “J” in his name which appeared on one early version of his studio stamps. He was buried at the Cornelian Bay cemetery, now called the Southern Regional Cemetery Trust Continue reading
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This Thomas Nevin studio portrait of a woman with umbrella and bag, ca. 1871, gives a clear view of his studio decor at that time – the lozenge-patterned carpet, the low easy chair covered with a shiny material, the table … Continue reading
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Alfred Bock (b.1835 -d. 1920) inherited his father Thomas Bock’s daguerreotype establishment at 22 Campbell Street Hobart Town in April 1855 and announced his own photographic business. By July 1855 he had moved to Elliston’s premises at 78 Liverpool Street, … Continue reading
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Preparations began in early 1977 for the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery’s exhibition of Thomas J. Nevin’s convict photographs conventionally dated 1874 which were (re)discovered among the John Watt Beattie holdings acquired by the QVMAG shortly before Beattie’s death … Continue reading
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The bright touch of colour highlighting the girl’s posy or sprig of holly on a sepia toned carte is a common attribute of Thomas Nevin’s early portraits of private citizens. Another two portraits with the same red and green sprig … Continue reading
This full length portrait in carte-de-visite format is of an unidentified woman. As the same carpet appears in the Nevin-Day wedding photograph dated July 1871, this photo can be dated ca. 1869-72. The verso bears Thomas Nevin’s everyday business stamp … Continue reading
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Thomas and Jack Nevin arrived in Tasmania as children with two sisters, Mary Ann and Rebecca Jane. Neither sister lived to see the 20th century. Thomas Nevin’s portrait of his sister ca. 1873 Mary Ann Nevin (1844-d. Melbourne 1878) © … Continue reading
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Thomas Nevin’s portraits of his parents before 1875 … Mary Nevin, mother of Thomas Nevin early 1870s From © The Nevin Family and Shelverton Collections 2007-2010 Arr Mary Nevin (nee -? 1810-1875), mother of Tasmanian photographer Thomas James Nevin (1842-1923), … Continue reading
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THE FATAL SHORE
Robert Hughes’ book The Fatal Shore (1987) includes several prisoner ID photos by Thomas Nevin which Hughes’ publishers sourced from the Archives Office of Tasmania without attribution to Nevin, per this page of photographs: Continue reading
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The Archives Office of Tasmania has digitized and displayed online 92 carte-de-visite photographs of Tasmanian convicts. All are captioned “Photograph taken at Port Arthur by Thomas Nevin” and some are dated 1874 or earlier. Few were taken at Port Arthur, … Continue reading
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This stereograph by Thomas Nevin, titled Salmon Ponds, at Plenty near New Norfolk, ca. 1870, which is held by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is very similar to one by Samuel Clifford. Several views of the upper reaches of the Derwent were taken by Nevin, and copied by Clifford. Continue reading
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Thomas J. Nevin and Samuel Clifford (1827-1890) were close friends and colleagues over a period dating from ca. 1865 to Clifford’s death in 1890. This carte bearing the handwritten inscription “Clifford and Nevin, Hobart Town” is one of several in … Continue reading
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