Dawes Battery, Sydney Cove
Circa: 1857
Price: $660
WARD, Edward Wolstoneholme (attributed) # 695 Stereoscopic albumen print photograph. Each image 73 x 72 mm. Inscribed in ink in period hand verso: "Sydney Cove, Australia. No. 1." For an identical view, titled "Fortifications, Dawes Battery looking east", see "Masterpieces of Australian Photography" (Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1989), pl. 47. Ward was an amateur photographer active in Sydney 1856-60 (Lebovic & Cahill, p 32). An extremely early and important photographic image of Sydney Harbour.