Stereoscopic albumen print
Maker & role
Sir Edward Wolstenholme Ward (b.1823, d.1890), Photographer
Production date
1857
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Object detail
Title
View from Dawes Pt, Sydney 1857: looking east towards Government House
Production place
Collection
Measurements
0 - Whole, H: 8.2 x W: 17cm (H: 82 x W: 170mm)
Signature & marks
Dated 1857 and initialled EWW in ink on verso in handwriting of Captain Edward Wolstenholme Ward, Deputy Master of the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint. The verso of the card is also initialled A L B, in an unknown hand. The initials EW also scratched on image.
Credit line
Purchase, 2003
The Mint Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
The Mint Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
View of Dawes Pt, photographed by E. W. Ward, Sydney, 1857, stereographic albumen print
Description
Captain (later Sir) E W Ward, RE, was first Deputy Master of the Sydney Mint which opened in Sydney in May 1855. In 1856, along with Governor Denison and Professor John Smith, professor of chemistry at Sydney University, Ward was one of the driving forces in the formation of the Philosophical Society of NSW as a forum for original papers on subjects of science, art, literature and philosophy. Ward read papers to the Society and exhibited stereographs in photographic 'conversaziones' held by the Society. At an exhibition held in December 1859 Robert Hunt, also of the Mint, exhibited "twenty-three stereographs, from collodion negatives, by Messrs. Hunt, Jevons, Moresby, and Captain Ward". [ref: Sydney Morning Herald 22 December 1859 p.4].
Ward lived at Dawes Battery, on Dawes Point.
Part of the collection of, and photographed by, E.W. Ward, First Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Sydney. Inscribed and initialled.
E.W. Ward; Australia; 1859
Ward lived at Dawes Battery, on Dawes Point.
Part of the collection of, and photographed by, E.W. Ward, First Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Sydney. Inscribed and initialled.
E.W. Ward; Australia; 1859
Accession number
MIN2003/5
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