John T Gorus (2 results)
More imagesSeller: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Armadale, VIC, AustraliaDouglas Stewart Fine Books
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Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 64 mm (mount), recto of mount imprinted J. T. Gorus Sydney; verso imprinted From the Studio of J. T. Gorus, Photographic Artist, 101 King Street, Sydney, New South Wales;both the print and mount are in excellent condition.
More imagesSeller: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Armadale, VIC, AustraliaDouglas Stewart Fine Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used
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Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount), verso with imprint of 'John T. Gorus, Photographic Artist, 101 King St. Sydney'; the sitter has a touch of rose tinting on her lips; both the print and mount in very good condition. In addition to being a minor masterpiece of 1860s colonial portraiture, this…carte de visite by John Gorus is a rare example from this early period of a painted backdrop depicting Sydney scenery. The view depicts Farm Cove from the east, with the distinctive turrets and castellations of Government House prominent, just to the left of the attractive young sitter's head and shoulders. Other Sydney photographers of the early 1860s who are known to have used painted panoramas of Sydney Harbour and its foreshore include Croft Bros., James Walker, and - most interestingly in this case - Charles Pickering, whose studio backdrop from around the same time is virtually identical to that used in the Gorus studio and would appear to have been painted by the same arist. (For an illustrated example of the Pickering backdrop, see Gilmour, Joanna.Carte-o-mania. Canberra : National Portrait Gallery, 2018, illustrated p. 119).
