Category Archives: John McCullagh Collection

A highly coloured portrait

Unidentified woman, seated with sewing A highly colored carte-de-visite ca. 1872 Taken by T.Nevin late A.Bock, 140 Elizabeth St., Hobart Town Held at the Archives Office of Tasmania TAHO Ref: PH31/439 Photo © KLW NFC Imprint 2012 ARR This carte-de-visite … Continue reading

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Nevin’s big tabletop stereograph viewer

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Although this image is faint – it is a scan of a print pasted into the scrapbook of his son George – it shows clearly enough that George’s father, photographer Thomas J. Nevin, was rather fond of his big box tabletop stereograph viewer. Continue reading

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Clifford & Nevin’s cartes:tints versus daubs

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The bright touch of colour highlighting the girl’s posy or sprig of holly on a sepia toned carte is a common attribute of Thomas Nevin’s early portraits of private citizens. Another two portraits with the same red and green sprig … Continue reading

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Clifford & Nevin, and the coloured cartes

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Thomas J. Nevin and Samuel Clifford (1827-1890) were close friends and colleagues over a period dating from ca. 1865 to Clifford’s death in 1890. This carte bearing the handwritten inscription “Clifford and Nevin, Hobart Town” is one of several in … Continue reading

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