A handcoloured half-plate ambrotype of an Australian rural scene, featuring several crude bush dwellings with animal pens in the background and two men standing in the foreground, surrounded by archetypal eucalyptus-dominated scrub
The photographer, subjects, location and date are unknown, but the ambrotype came and went in the period 1855-1865. Large-format Australian outdoor ambrotypes are scarce; ones of this quality are rare. The ambrotype is a thin collodion negative on glass with a black backing of paper, cloth or paint (as in..... More