• Title
  Lydia Gunther, nee Paris, wife of James William Gunther, German missionary, ca. 1880 / Sibert & Bursle and photographer unknown
• Call number
  P1/688
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1880
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  887758
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  2 photographic prints - 10.8 x 13.6 cm, 10.3 x 6.2 cm - carte de visite, cabinet
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  WILLIAM JAMES GUNTHER (1839-1918), Anglican clergyman, was born on 28 May 1839 at Wellington, New South Wales, son of Rev. James William Gunther and his wife Lydia, née Paris.
  
  Reference:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/ (accessed February 16, 2010)
• Scope and Content
  Carte de visite portrait of Mrs Gunther in widow's clothes
  Cabinet photograph of Mrs Gunther kneeling by her husband's grave, which reads "Archdeacon Gunther, died December 20th, 1879, aged 72 years" Theophilus Gunther's grave is to the right and a child's grave, "A.G. 1870" is in the foreground. Another woman stands behind the headstone and another in mourning to the right.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Gunther, A. (BM), February 2010
  Digital order no:a4216088
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Mrs Gunther at her husband's grave -- in pencil on the reverse of the cabinet photograph
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Sibert, C. A.
  Bursle, W. H.
  
• Name
  Gunther, Lydia
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  portraits
  mourners
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3312304

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