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C1880
Untitled (Family C.Stening Butcher 198)
Artist:
Arthur K.Syer
Rare and detailed photograph by Arthur K Syer from his series of C19th photographs of Sydney. Depicts a colonial butcher’s shop and grocer Sydney.
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Full Title:
Untitled (Family C.Stening Butcher 198)
Date:
C1880
Artist:
Arthur K.Syer
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Vintage albumen photograph.
Image Size:
148mm
x 200mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1880
Description:
Rare and detailed photograph by Arthur K Syer from his series of C19th photographs of Sydney.
Depicts a colonial butcher’s shop and grocer Sydney.
Biography:
Arthur Syer (1845-1911)
Syer was the brother of the artist Walter Syer, was a friend of cartoonist Phil May and supplied him with ‘snapshot’ photographs of ordinary people in daily attire. Phil May, renowned for the life-like quality of his illustrations, used the photographs to impart an authentic atmosphere to his cartoons. Syer’s low angle photographs were taken surreptitiously, using a ‘detective camera’. Such cameras, sometimes concealed in parcels or portmanteau, were made possible with the invention of the dry plate in 1880.
Reference:
Phil May and his Photography, Australian Magazine, 1908. pp 668-677
