Tasmanian photographer | Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923)

19th century Australian police and commercial photographer

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Mary Ann (Minnie) Drew nee Nevin ca. 1917 Youngest daughter Minnie Nevin m. James Drew (1884-1974)
92 Warwick St. Hobart Rosanna Mary Domeney nee Tilley at Thomas Nevin’s studio 1870s
Alfred Barrett and wife Harriet Biggs playing chess 1870s Thomas Nevin and Alfred Barrett Biggs 1872-1876
Prisoner James Blanchfield poster at Hobart exhibition 2019 Exhibition 2019: T. J. NEVIN’s mugshot of prisoner James BLANCHFIELD 1875
Prisoner John NOWLAN alias DOWLING Prisoner John NOWLAN alias DOWLING 1870-1876
Prisoner William SAWYER or SAYER(s) 1875
Shipowner Joseph Somes Joseph Somes, Captain Edward Goldsmith and the “Angelina” 1844-46
A distinguished forelock: Henry Dresser Atkinson on board the “City of Hobart” 1872
Captain Goldsmith, AWOL seaman Geeves, and HMS Havannah
Captain Edward Goldsmith and wife Elizabeth’s land deals in VDL
Thomas Nevin’s photographs mounted on calico 1870s
Thomas Nevin at the Canary and Cage Bird Show 1869
Bleak Expectations: Captain Goldsmith’s will in Chancery 1871-1922
1854: a year onshore at Hobart Tasmania for Captain Edward Goldsmith
John Nevin snr and family 1851-1854: shipping documents
Captain Edward Goldsmith and the conundrums of the Ethiopian Serenaders 1851
The Will of Richard Goldsmith snr (1769-1839)
Treasures passed down from Captain Edward Goldsmith and Captain James Day
Thomas Nevin and the Terpsichoreans, New Norfolk 1867
Portraits and landscapes from T. J. Nevin’s cohort

 

 

William Graves

Thomas Nevin, his studio carpet, and pauper William Graves

May 22, 2020

A prisoner by the name of William GRAVE arrived at Hobart on board the convict transport Lady Montagu in December 1852. He was already lame when he arrived. His records stated “A cripple walks with a crutch.” When photographer Thomas J. Nevin assisted the New Town Territorial Police police in the arrest of a well-known identity in the Glenorchy area called William GRAVES in May 1875 , the warrant described the man as “lame of right leg, walks with a crutch”. One month later, when he was discharged from Hobart, his left leg, not the right, was recorded by police as “crippled”. So who was this man, photographed standing on Thomas Nevin’s carpet? … More Thomas Nevin, his studio carpet, and pauper William Graves

T. J. Nevin’s 1870s mugshots the inspiration for 21st century artworks

May 12, 2020

The images presented are inspired by photographic images of the prisoners of Port Arthur taken by the Tasmanian photographer Thomas Nevin in the 1870s. The photos were used as mug-shots, legal instruments taken for the police and not meant to be ethnographic artifacts. The images are, however, strikingly beautiful with the expressions and poses of the prisoners allowing us a window into the lives of these men. When Nevin’s photos were first exhibited together at the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston in 1977 the curator, Mr. John McPhee, noted; ‘These photographs are among the most moving and powerful images of the human condition.’ Through the paintings presented, you can sense the emotions of these long-deceased spirits; their presence is represented as a ghostly imprint on the golden surface of this vast and beautiful land. – Lisa Sharoun

“I never lost the look of the man” – Kenneth Pomlett
… More T. J. Nevin’s 1870s mugshots the inspiration for 21st century artworks

Group at the Lady Franklin Museum, Kangaroo Valley, Tasmania

Thomas Nevin’s stereographs from the Pedder collection

May 11, 2020

Lawyers, barristers, magistrates, politicians, police superintendents, detectives, their families and their prisoners were photographed by Thomas J. Nevin from the late 1860s to the 1880s. The Pedder family of magistrates and police officers, the family of solicitor John Woodcock Graves the younger, the McVilly family of teachers and police officers, and the family of Attorney-General the Hon. W. R. Giblin, all made use of Thomas J. Nevin’s commission with the colonial government’s Lands and Survey Department, the Municipal Police Office and Mayor’s Court, and the Hobart City Corporation to provide them with stereographic views and carte-de-visite portraits. The stereograph by Thomas J. Nevin ca. 1868-1870 of the Lady Franklin Museum, Kangaroo Valley bearing the inscription “A. Pedder” on verso, is one of least four held in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery collections. Solicitor Alfred Pedder (1881-1977) may have kept these stereographs by Thomas Nevin from the estate of his father, Police Superintendent Frederick Pedder (1841-1923) who was a colleague of Nevin’s at the Municipal Police Office, Hobart. Alfred Pedder’s daughter Sylvia in turn may have donated them to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in the 1970s … More Thomas Nevin’s stereographs from the Pedder collection

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