A carte de visite portrait photograph, a studio tableau of an Indigenous man wearing a fur cloak, holding a spear mounted in a woomera
Adelaide, S. Solomon, School of Photography, 51 Rundle Street, Adelaide, [circa 1870s].
An albumen paper photograph (image size 92 × 57 mm), mounted on yellow card (100 × 63 mm) with the photographer's details printed in gilt on the verso.
Apart from a minute chip to the left-hand edge of the photograph, this is a richly-toned print in fine condition.
We have previously sold a carte de visite, mounted on an identical printed card, of a studio tableau by Solomon of an 'Indigenous woman wearing a fur cloak, with a child on her back, a boomerang in one hand and a reed basket in the other; the same props appear in the background, so this is presumably the same fur cloak. According to his obituary in the 'Advertiser' on 15 May 1929, Saul Solomon (1836-1929) first established a 'photographer's business' in Adelaide in 1868. He moved to Mt Gambier in 1890, where 'he conducted one of the leading hotels for some years'. Davies and Stanbury list Solomon in four different partnerships in Adelaide, including Solomon & Bardwell at the Rundle Street address from 1874 to 1891, but not there on his own. Some of these Solomon dates recorded in Davies and Stanbury are definitely inaccurate.
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