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Print
456945
  • Title
    [Five stages of inebriation, ca.1863-1868] / C. Pickering
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXB 503
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca.1863-1868
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    456945
  • Physical Description
    Photographs - prints each approx. 9.3 x 6 cm. on cartes-de-visite 9.6 x 6.4 cm. - one print of the five is trimmed as an oval measuring approx. 5.4 x 6.6 cm. - 5 albumen print cartes-de-visite
  • System of arrangement
    Sequence represents progressive intoxication
  • General note

    Dated from period of Pickering's location at 612 George Street
    The photographs illustrate drunkenness in five stages, played by a male subject in a studio
    Possibly commissioned by a local temperance group for educative purposes, the photographs may also have been used by an engraver for illustrations. The penultimate frame of the drunk in a wheelbarrow resembles S.T. Gill's watercolour 'Ease without Opulence', 1863 (PXC 284/30). In 1866, NSW Premier James Martin introduced the Drunkard's Punishment Bill -- notes by Curator of Photographs, 2007
    The printed studio mark on reverse reads "Photographic Artist. C. Pickering, 612 George Street, near Wilshire's Buildings, Sydney"
    Digital order no:Album ID : 862622
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  • Topic
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