New Zealand. General Assembly Library: Photograph albums from the Mangaroa collection

Date
[ca 1874-1880s]
By
New Zealand. General Assembly Library
Reference
ATL-Group-00597
Description

Photographs of Australia, the Middle East, and Italy. Includes a small number of photographs of art works, classical sculpture and reproductions of work by European artists.

Quantity: 3 album(s).

Physical Description: Photograph albums

Provenance: Donated by the General Assembly Library. Part of the Mangaroa collection

Processing information: Reference number changed from PAColl-6083 to ATL-Group-00597 on 6 October 2021.

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Format
3 album(s), Photographs, Photograph albums
There are 3 items in total.
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There are 3 items in this group.
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Album of Renaissance Art, and European towns and cities

Date: 1880s-1902

From: New Zealand. General Assembly Library: Photograph albums from the Mangaroa collection

Reference: PA1-f-209

Description: Photographs of the Italian Renaissance masters from Giotto to Raphael. Also works by Memling and engravings by Durer. Classical and gothic sculpture. Greek temples, and Greek and Albanian women in national dress. A large section of the album is devoted to Italian cities. There is a section on Britany, another on Bruges, and another on Clovelly, a picturesque English village Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Album of views of the Middle East

Date: 1880s

From: New Zealand. General Assembly Library: Photograph albums from the Mangaroa collection

Reference: PA1-f-208

Description: Ruins and monuments of Egypt; the sights of Cairo, Istanbul, and Jerusalem including street scenes, mosques, churches, and general views of the cities. There are some photographs of classical sculptures, and one photograph in the manner of Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden of a nude youth standing among cactus beside the sea. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Photographs of Australian Natives

Date: 1873-1874

From: New Zealand. General Assembly Library: Photograph albums from the Mangaroa collection

By: Lindt, John William, 1845-1926

Reference: PA1-q-1317

Description: Album of 12 mounted studio tableau photographs portraying individuals and groups of Aboriginal Australians, positioned in front of painted landscape backdrops among artefacts and specimens of native Australian flora and fauna, taken by John William Lindt, produced between 1873 and 1874. Title transcribed from item. A series of 12 photographic prints portraying Aboriginal Australians by John William Lindt are included in an album of photographs at Library reference PA1-q-330. Of the 12 photographic prints, nine appear to be taken from the same negatives as those found in this album. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 12 mounted photographs. Physical Description: Album, brown leather half-binding with brown cloth boards, raised bands, decorations and lettering in gilt, containing 12 albumen photographic prints mounted on recto of album leaves, 37 x 28.5 cm.