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Thomas J. Nevin portfolio

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Lady Franklin Museum at Ancanthe, Lenah Valley, Tasmania, formerly Kangaroo Valley. Photo copyright © KLW NFC 2014

Captains, emigrants and convicts: the summer of 1842-3 in Hobart, VDLAmong the 220 bounty emigrants who disembarked at Hobart from the Sir Charles Napier on 29 November 1842 were members of the JUDD family from Barkway, Hertfordshire (UK). Parents Thomas Judd snr an…

Thomas J. Nevin at his finest: Camille Del Sarte and family 1860s-1870sWho is this child? Nine children were born to Camille Del Sarte and Ann Caroline Conroy between 1861 and 1874. Of the six boys, three are known to have survived to adulthood – Leopold Zavier,…

Best of friends: Emma PITT and Liz O’MEAGHER 1866The verso inscription on this carte-de-visite – “I say Captain Mackie is not to show his face in Nelson without you Liz O’Meagher” – signed by Emma Pitt, dated 6th Jun…

George and Matilda Cherry at Thomas Nevin’s studio ca. 1872When a carte-de-visite taken by Thomas J. Nevin in the early 1870s was acquired for our private collection in 2013, the sitters were simply described as an unidentified “wealthy” couple…

Lost and found: one day in 1866 and the scientific racism which followedIn August 1866 at his Hobart studio, 42 Macquarie Street, photographer Charles A. Woolley (1834-1922) would ask of his three sitters, Truganini, William Lanney and Bessy Clark, to bear with him whi…

The sweetest young brother: thirteen year old Jack Nevin 1865Of all four siblings – from the eldest Thomas James to his sisters Rebecca Jane and Mary Ann – William John Nevin, known to the family as Jack, was the youngest child with the most to g…

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