• Title
  Daniel Deniehy, [after 1852] / ambrotype portrait by unknown photographer
• Call number
  DL Pa 59
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [after 1852]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  457991
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - image 12 x 8.5 cm. ; frame 14 x 11 cm. - 1 ambrotype, hand-tinted, in a rectangular glazed frame (image set in oval gilt), no backing
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Daniel Henry Deniehy (1828-1865), lawyer, journalist and parliamentarian, was born at Sydney, son of Henry and Mary Deniehy. He was educated in Sydney until 1843 when he travelled with his parents to Europe where he was further educated privately. Deniehy returned to Sydney in 1844 and finished his schooling before being articled to solicitor N.D. Stenhouse. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1851. Deniehy founded and edited the weekly journal 'The Southern Cross' (1859) and later, while living temporarily in Melbourne, edited 'The Victorian' (1862-1864). He was elected a member of the NSW Legislative Assembly for the seats of Argyle (1857-1859) and East Macquarie (1860).
  For a more detailed biography of Deniehy, see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Glass plate is broken and part missing. Coating of black paint on the reverse is defective
  Identity of subject uncertain. He looks younger than 24, Deniehy's age at the introduction of the ambrotype process. Only four other portraits of him could be traced, including one hung in the Dixson Gallery, and these show a resemblance to the present photograph -- note on Catalog card
  Probably not Deniehy -- Curator of Photographs (Dec 2007)
  The group of daguerreotypes and ambrotypes at DL Pa 51 to DL Pa 91, and DL Pb 5, are possibly from the same studio -- note on Catalog card
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Deniehy in pencil on the reverse
• Name
  Deniehy, D. H. (Daniel Henry), 1828-1865
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  ambrotypes
  journalists
  lawyers
  politicians
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8764840

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