Photographers S.J. Dailey and Thomas Moorhouse Fox in their Clarendon studio
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Australia
active 1860s – 1878
S. J. Dailey
Australia
1842 – 1899
Thomas Moorhouse Fox
Australia
1840 – 1881
Photographers S.J. Dailey and Thomas Moorhouse Fox in their Clarendon studio
c.1862
ambrotype
- Place made
- Clarendon, South Australia
- Medium
- ambrotype
- Dimensions
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9.5 x 7.0 cm (sight, oval)
10.8 x 9.6 cm (frame) - Credit line
- J.C. Earl Bequest Fund 2006
- Accession number
- 20063Ph5
- Signature and date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Media category
- Photograph
- Collection area
- Australian Photographs
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WALL LABEL: Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography, 2016
This is the earliest known double self-portrait in South Australia and shows the photographers Samuel Dailey (left) and Thomas Moorhouse Fox (right) in their Clarendon studio. At first glance the studio appears to be a plush drawing room, but the exterior scene through the window is revealed as a trompe l’oeil, with Fox’s arm resting on an imaginary windowsill.
Dailey & Fox operated their photographic business in Adelaide from 1861 to 1869. A letter from Fox’s brother indicates the importance of photographic portraits as mementoes to send to family members; he wrote that he expected to receive ’one or two a month’.
Julie Robinson, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs
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The photograph in Australia
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, 4 July 2015 – 11 October 2015 -
Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography
Art Gallery of South Australia, 5 February 2016 – 18 September 2016 -
The photograph in Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, 21 March 2015 – 8 June 2015 -
A Century in Focus: South Australian photography 1840s-1940s
Art Gallery of South Australia, 9 November 2007 – 28 January 2008
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[Catalogue] Zagala, Maria, Jane Messenger, Ken Orchard, Philip Jones, Carolyn Lovitt, and Elspeth Pitt. 2007. A Century in Focus - South Australian Photography 1840s - 1940s. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia.
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[Book] Annear, Judy. The photograph and Australia.