Mosaic portrait photograph of members of the first Legislative Assembly of New South Wales under the Electoral Reform Act of 1858, 1859 / Edward [i.e. Edwin] Dalton, photographer

MPG/83

fonds

Sydney : Royal Photographic Establishment, 1859

Graphic Materials, Photographs

836873

1 albumen photoprint - oval shape, approximately 42.7 x 33.8 cm with separate key beneath, both on sheet 58.5 x 43 cm

Two of the portraits, lower centre (78.William Russell and 79. William Macleay) appear to be from drawings; others are from photographs. The printed key (part missing, lower left) includes the names of members with the districts they represented.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955.

Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 697 -

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.

Title based on information which appears as part of the image, upper and lower edges, within decorative border.

A copy of the complete key, list of each sitter, copies of references cited and notes on a work held at Parliament House, Sydney, which may be the master photographed for the production of copies, are filed at PXn 697 (see Finding Aids)

Attributed to Edward Dalton on the basis of note of the announcement by 'Mr. E. Dalton' of 'his preparation of a sheet collection of the portraits of all the members of the Legislative Assembly under the First Reform Parliament ... ', and comment on 'Mr. Dalton's group of the heads of the Assembly, being the original picture from which the smaller published sheet is reproduced ...', in Sydney Morning Herald, Sept. 13, 1859, p.12, col. 3 and Dec. 20, 1859, p.5., col.1.

Dated from information printed beneath key: 'Photographed and published at the Royal Photographic Establishment, Sydney, October, 1859'.