Item 1: Rowe family miniature portrait, ca. 1846

MIN 252

item

ca. 1846

Graphic Materials, Photographs

897764

Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room : Copy Print: MIN 252

1 photograph - 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. inside mount, 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. in box - daguerreotype in carved wooden box

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
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Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009

Previously identified as Thomas Dean Rowe. Following the dating of this daguerreotype this cannot be Thomas as he died in 1838. The subject strongly resembles George Taylor Rowe (see portrait at ML 641)
References:
Curator of Photographs, State Library of NSW, 2006
Library correspondence file

Dated from the first Australian photographer, George Goodman's use of the painted backdrop (see Sydney Morning Herald 25/4/1846). The large sized plate is indicative of a later date than 1845.
Reference:
Curator of Photographs, State Library of NSW, 2006