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Ennis (2000) and Crombie (2004) publications … Click on image for large readable version Isobel Crombie’s Body Culture: Max Dupain, Photography and Australian Culture, 1919-1939, published by the National Gallery of Victoria (2004) includes this Thomas J. Nevin photograph of … Continue reading
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Visual pleasures for the newly-weds Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin in 1871 were presented at the Hobart Town Hall in the form of panoramas and dioramas. Charles’s panorama (1871) occupied 10,000 square feet of canvas, and each painting was 17 feet … Continue reading
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Tasmanian photographer Thomas Nevin (1842-1923).
Self-portrait ca. 1871. This is one of five extant photographs of Thomas J. Nevin held in family collections. Continue reading
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Updated July 2010. ALIASES, COPIES & MISATTRIBUTION White as Nutt, Nutt alias White … Above: The database image with verso at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery: note that the verso is inscribed with the conventional date of Nevin’s … Continue reading
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AUGUSTA (Co. Buckingham) is a postal village and residential suburb of Hobart Town, in the police district of Hobart, and electoral district of Glenorchy. It is situate on the main road from Hobart Town to Launceston, about 2 miles from the former place, and on the New Town Rivulet, which empties itself in to the Derwent, near Risdon. A portion of Mount Wellington overlooks the district. There are no mills or manufactories in Augusta at present, except a pottery. The surrounding district is agricultural to a large extent. There are several coal seams in the district; two or three are being worked, and produce very good domestic fuel. The communication with Hobart Town is by ‘busses and other conveyances which run hourly. The city of Hobart Town adjoins Augusta N.W. There is one hotel in the village, the Harvest Home. The surrounding country is undulating and hilly. The population numbers about 300 persons. There are places of worship as follows: Church of England, Church of Rome, and Wesleyan Church. Continue reading
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Samuel Clifford advertised in The Mercury, January 1876, that he had acquired the “interest” in Nevin’s commercial photographs taken for private clients and would reprint them at request. Between 1876 and 1880 Nevin was engaged full-time as the police and … Continue reading
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These are some of the original documents and press release prepared for the 1977 exhibition of T. J. Nevin’s prisoner mugshots at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, catalogued as “Convict portraits, Port Arthur 1874″ in public … Continue reading
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The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery holds several stereographs on salt paper by Thomas J. Nevin taken in the late 1860s – ca 1870. These six were online in 2006: Series Q1994.56 from The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection … Continue reading
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A significant issue of attribution arises around questions of authorship when two cartes of Tasmanian Premier Sir Richard Dry are compared: one at the State Library of Tasmania is attributed to J.W. Beattie, although his authorship of the original image … Continue reading
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The “Taken at Port Arthur 1874” inscription on the verso of a Tasmanian convict carte appears uniformly on many prisoner photographs originally taken by Thomas Nevin. The handwritten inscription and the date “1874″ was written by an archivist ca. 1916, probably by John Watt Beattie who salvaged these cartes from the Hobart Gaol, but it has misled researchers into believing in the existence of a “Port Arthur photographer” of prisoners in 1874 (Long, 1995; Reeder, 1995). Thomas Nevin visited the site on several occasions in the company of other photographers (Alfred Bock, Samuel Clifford) from the mid 1860s to the mid 1870s, and by 1874 he was attending to police business there, checking transportation records against police record aliases Continue reading
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“Rank” appears on this Hobart Town marriage registration form, when Thomas Nevin married Elizabeth Rachel Day on July 12, 1871. Its usage on this official form is indicative of his status in government service. Detail of Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin’s … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Rachel Day (1847-1914), daughter of guard captain of the Candahar (1842) and master mariner Captain James Day, married Thomas James Nevin on 12th July, 1871, at the Wesleyan Chapel, Kangaroo Valley, Hobart. Hand-tinted carte-de-visite portraits of Elizabeth Rachel Day … Continue reading
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More than 3000 Tasmanian prisoner identification photographs (mugshots) were taken by the brothers Thomas and (Constable) John (Jack) Nevin between 1872 and 1884. T. J. Nevin, 9 convicts photographs Mitchell Library NSW (PXB 274) Photo KLW NFC 2009 Arr Most … Continue reading
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