Monthly Archives: July 2007

How misattribution can persist

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Ennis (2000) and Crombie (2004) publications … Click on image for large readable version Isobel Crombie’s Body Culture: Max Dupain, Photography and Australian Culture, 1919-1939, published by the National Gallery of Victoria (2004) includes this Thomas J. Nevin photograph of … Continue reading

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Visual pleasures 15 July 1871: the Dioramas

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Visual pleasures for the newly-weds Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin in 1871 were presented at the Hobart Town Hall in the form of panoramas and dioramas. Charles’s panorama (1871) occupied 10,000 square feet of canvas, and each painting was 17 feet … Continue reading

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Thomas Nevin, self-portrait ca. 1871

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Tasmanian photographer Thomas Nevin (1842-1923).
Self-portrait ca. 1871. This is one of five extant photographs of Thomas J. Nevin held in family collections. Continue reading

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Convict Carte No. 1: George White aka Nutt

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Updated July 2010. ALIASES, COPIES & MISATTRIBUTION White as Nutt, Nutt alias White … Above: The database image with verso at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery: note that the verso is inscribed with the conventional date of Nevin’s … Continue reading

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The Kangaroo Valley farm & New Town stereos

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In the year 1877, about 300 people resided in the village of Augusta located in the county of Buckingham, Tasmania. It was in the police district of Hobart, the electoral district of Glenorchy, and home to the immigrant family of … Continue reading

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Hobart Town from Lime Kiln Hill

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Samuel Clifford advertised in The Mercury, January 1876, that he had acquired the “interest” in Nevin’s commercial photographs taken for private clients and would reprint them at request. Between 1876 and 1880 Nevin was engaged full-time as the police and … Continue reading

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The QVMAG Exhibition 1977 of convict photographs

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These are some of the original documents and press release prepared for the 1977 exhibition of T. J. Nevin’s prisoner mugshots at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, catalogued as “Convict portraits, Port Arthur 1874″ in public … Continue reading

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Thomas Nevin’s salt paper stereos at the TMAG

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The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery holds several stereographs on salt paper by Thomas J. Nevin taken in the late 1860s – ca 1870. These six were online in 2006: Series Q1994.56 from The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection … Continue reading

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Authorship of Tasmanian Premiers

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A significant issue of attribution arises around questions of authorship when two cartes of Tasmanian Premier Sir Richard Dry are compared: one at the State Library of Tasmania is attributed to J.W. Beattie, although his authorship of the original image … Continue reading

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Recto & verso of a “Port Arthur convict” carte

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This prisoner John Fitzpatrick, alias John Fitzgerald, was convicted in the Supreme Court Launceston on 13 January 1870, sentenced to 5 years for feloniously receiving. He was transferred to the Hobart Gaol because of his lengthy sentence, and photographed in … Continue reading

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Thomas Nevin’s Rank 1871

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“Rank” appears on this Hobart Town marriage registration form, when Thomas Nevin married Elizabeth Rachel Day on July 12, 1871. Its usage on this official form is indicative of his status in government service. Detail of Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin’s … Continue reading

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Signatures and handwriting 1870s

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Elizabeth Rachel Day (1847-1914), daughter of guard captain of the Candahar (1842) and master mariner Captain James Day, married Thomas James Nevin on 12th July, 1871, at the Wesleyan Chapel, Kangaroo Valley, Hobart. Hand-tinted carte-de-visite portraits of Elizabeth Rachel Day … Continue reading

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Prisoners Smith and Williamson, cartes by T. J. Nevin

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More than 3000 Tasmanian prisoner identification photographs (mugshots) were taken by the brothers Thomas and (Constable) John (Jack) Nevin between 1872 and 1884. T. J. Nevin, 9 convicts photographs Mitchell Library NSW (PXB 274) Photo KLW NFC 2009 Arr Most … Continue reading

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