Australia, Sydney—Edwin Dalton. Twelve early glass stereoscopic photographs in a wooden case, 1859-60

AUSTRALIA—DALTON, EDWIN

Twelve glass stereoviews of Sydney, 1858-59

12 glass stereoviews (approximately 82 x 170mm.), housed in a nineteenth-century wooden box with removable lid, one with a crack, a few with loss of emulsion, other scratches, wear or oxidisation

RARE EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF SYDNEY, comprising views of Macquarie Street, Government House, Cambell's Wharf, Watson's Bay, Macquarie Fort, Sydney's Head, The Gap, Hawkesbury River, Richmond River, a bridge in Sydney, Circular Bay, and a river or waterhole. Dalton was a pioneer photographer in Australia, and his stereoviews of Sydney harbour and the Hawkesbury river above Richmond (1858-59), are an early and important photographic record of Sydney in the mid-nineteenth century. Few examples of this series of photographs survive for two reasons: firstly the photographs were produced on glass, and secondly Dalton's studio was destroyed by fire in August 1862.