Jessica Cape collection of portraits of the Cape and Woolley families [picture]
- Bib ID:
- 1585777
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Drawer PM 7360-7370 #PIC/P764/1-11 copy
- Description:
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- [1854-1880]
- 11 photographs : ambrotype, some handcoloured ; in case 22.8 x 18.1 cm. or smaller.
- Summary:
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Some of the portraits are identified - Ellen Alger Woolley (mother of Jessica Cape), Thomas Woolley (grandfather of Jessica Cape), Rollo A. Cape aged 17; includes four ambrotypes of children by T.S. Glaister. Some are hand coloured. Also included are four miniature portraits on ivory.
- Partial contents:
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- 1. Ambrotype, sixth plate, cased, English, 1858
- 2. Ambrotype, ninth plate, Eichmeyer case, probably English, ca. 1860
- 3. Ambrotype, ninth plate, unusual rivetted silver plated brass case, Australian ca. 1857
- 4. Ambrotype, quater plate, Eichmeyer case, probably English, ca. 1860
- 5. Ambrotype quater plate cased , Australian, ca. 1861
- 6. Ambrotype, sixth plate, cased, probably English, ca. 1860
- 7. Ambrotype, sixth plate, cased, English, 1858
- 8. Ambrotype, sixth plate, uncased, English, 1858
- 9. Ambrotype, sixth plate, cased, possibly Australian, ca. 1858
- 10. Photographer Thomas Skelton Glaister. Ambrotypes, four images mounted in a pair of oval passe-partout stereo mounts, quater plate case, Australia, ca. 1858-9
- 11. Ambrotype, hand painted photograph.
- Notes:
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- Title from acquisitions documentation.
- C11/1,7,8 are all taken in the same London Studio at the same time. C11/10 is a particulary fine example of Glaister's work. Source: Alan Davies, New South Wales State Library, see file.
- P764 (the Glaister portraits are accessioned at P763 and the miniatures R11232-R11233 and R11318-R11319.
- PIC Drawer PM 7360-7370 #PIC/P764/1-11 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141564911
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- List available.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Glaister, Thomas, active 1854-1870
- Related Records:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1880
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