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442495
  • Title
    Camilla Urso, violinist, 1894 / Foster & Martin, 262-264 Collins Street, Melbourne
  • Creator
  • Call number
    P1/1860
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    1894
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    442495
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    Photographs - image 29.7 x 18.4 cm. , on mount 32.8 x 18.8 cm. - 1 panel photoprint
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Camilla Urso (1842-1902) was a child prodigy who toured Australia in 1879-80 and 1894 as an adult. -- Reference: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (pp. 94,97,131)
  • Scope and Content
    Camilla Urso, standing, wears a white evening gown, earrings, brooch and bracelet; and holds her violin
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  • General note

    Transferred from P1/Urso, Camilla (BM), July 2010
    Digital order no:a4365060
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    "To Marr Thompson Esq. with kind remembrance Camilla Urso, Sydney 1894" -- signature on lower left hand corner of the photograph

    "Camilla Urso 1894 / World famous Italian violinist / came out with Mme De Vere Sapio star soprano / lease managed by Edward Geach" -- in Marr Thompson's hand in ink on the reverse

    Photographer's stamp -- lower edge of the mount
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