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Below is an example of the same photograph printed twice, once as a single image, the other as a stereograph.The black and white copy is dated 1869 and held at the Archives Office of Tasmania with attribution to Samuel Clifford. The stereograph (double image) is held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, and carries the impress of T. Nevin on mount. Continue reading
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A new National Portrait Gallery of Australia is under construction in Canberra. No doubt the new spaces will display photographic portraits of convicts transported to Australia, as part of the country’s rich history of migration. How will the National Portrait … Continue reading
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Emily Maud Davis (1891-1971) married Albert Edward Nevin (1888-1955), youngest son of photographer Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin nee Day, on the 5th March, 1917, at Launceston, Tasmania. Detail of Burrows photo below: Emily Maud Davis © The Nevin Family Collection … Continue reading
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Third son William John Nevin was born 14th March 1878 at the Town Hall, Hobart, where his father Thomas Nevin was appointed Office and Hall keeper for the City Corporation and photographer for the Municipal Police Office, having leased his … Continue reading
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Emanuel Blore and Job Smith aka William Campbell From the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection Reproduced from page 36 of Tasmanian Photographers 1840-1940: A Directory (TMAG 1995) Photo © KLW NFC 2008 ARR Click on image for large view … Continue reading
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An Apprentice Wanted – 1863 Sennotypes and oils by Alfred Bock held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Top: Self portrait and signature Lower from left to right: Mr Crouch; Mrs Crouch; Unknown Man Thomas J. Nevin answered an … Continue reading
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Several photohistorians have questioned – and dismissed – the suggestion by Chris Long in the TMAG publication Tasmanian Photographers 1840-1940: A Directory (1995:36) that the Port Arthur Commandant A.H. Boyd was the photographer of the Port Arthur convicts in 1874. These include Joan Kerr and Geoff Stilwell, John McPhee, and Richard Neville among the more authoritative commentators. Continue reading
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The Port Arthur photographers … Alfred Bock 1860s © TP for Private Collections 2010 ARR In 1863, Thomas J. Nevin applied for an apprenticeship with Alfred Bock at his studio, The City Photographic Establishment, 140 Elizabeth-street, Hobart Town. Alfred Bock’s … Continue reading
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William Radcliffe published a guide to Port Arthur in the 1930s with photographs by John Watt Beattie taken in the early 1900s. The shame of convict heritage, a keenly felt stigma of the times, required concealment of real names. On page 25, he writes:
In consideration of relatives who may be living, the actual names have been omitted. If any doubt of the facts is occasioned in any way, the records may be seen on application at my museum at Port Arthur. Continue reading
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TALK IN THE STUDIO The Photographic News would have been read to tatters by professional photographers Alfred Bock, Thomas Nevin, Samuel Clifford, Charles Woolley, and amateurs such as Morton Allport when it arrived in Tasmania 1863-64. It may have been … Continue reading
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Charles A. Woolley placed an advertisement in the Tasmanian Mercury, February 11th, 1871 for his wonderful “magalethoscope” [sic]. Charles Woolley’s ad in the Mercury February 11, 1871 This is a misprint, perhaps by the newspaper. The megalethoscope was an apparatus … Continue reading
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John Watt Beattie located his museum in Hobart but called it the “Port Arthur Museum” where he sold any fragment of any item as historical artefact of Tasmania’s convict and aboriginal past, including reproductions. John Watt Beattie ca. 1920 Archives … Continue reading
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The article below appeared in The Bulletin, a weekly Australian magazine on May 16, 1978. The journalist’s name was not recorded. It was published a year after the initial exhibition of the Tasmanian convict portraits by Thomas Nevin, held at … Continue reading
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Fashions in prison uniforms at the Hobart Gaol 1870′s varied according to the class of criminal, his trade or job, and the season. A visitor to the gaol in July 1882 noted the grey jacket and leather caps of the … Continue reading
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When the issue of “authorship” of the extant 19th century Tasmanian convict portraits was raised by Chris Long in 1982, he gave no valid, rational, or factually based reason to question the attribution to Thomas Nevin. From Convict portraits by … Continue reading
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