Early Photographs - Landscapes and Streetscapes

Sepia photograph of an intersection in a colonial Victorian city taken from a high vantage point.

Photograph - Richard Daintree and Antoine Fauchery, 'Bourke Street, Melbourne', c. 1858, State Library Victoria

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View of Bourke Street looking west from Spring Street.

This image is part of the first photographic series of Australian scenes presented for sale to the public. Produced by the studio of Antoine Fauchery and Richard Daintree in 1858, this photograph is one of 53 collectively known as the Fauchery-Daintree Album.

Using the latest collodian wet-plate process, Fauchery and Daintree produced their collection of albumen silver prints at a time when the sales of photographs were flourishing.

photograph : albumen silver ; 20.5 x 24.2 cm.

Sepia photograph of a street in a colonial Victorian city.

Photograph - Richard Daintree and Antoine Fauchery, 'Swanston Street. Melbne i.e. Melbourne', 1858, State Library Victoria

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View of Swanston Street looking north from Collins Street.

1 photograph : albumen silver ; 19.8 x 25.3 cm.

Sepia photograph of a wooded escarpment with with a waterfall flowing down to a pool.

Photograph - Antoine Fauchery, 'Falls at Glen Lyon Upper Loddon River', c. 1858, State Library Victoria

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Falls at Glen Lyon Upper Loddon River.

photograph : albumen silver ; 24.9 x 20.6 cm.

Sepia photograph of an urban river with bare banks lined with warehouses and Nineteenth Century steam and sailing vessels.

Photograph - Richard Daintree and Antoine Fauchery, 'The Yarra below the Falls Melbourne', c. 1858, State Library Victoria

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By 1858, we can already see the altered state of the Yarra River.

photograph : albumen silver ; 19.7 x 25 cm.

Sepia photograph of a river with banks wooded with eucalypts. High single arch bridge in distance.

Photograph - Richard Daintree and Antoine Fauchery, 'The Yarra Near Studley Park', c. 1858, State Library Victoria

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The Yarra near Studley Park.

photograph : albumen silver ; 21.1 x 26.2 cm.

Sepia photograph of a partially cleared paddock with eucalypts, some dead, and some stumps and a post and rail fence. To the left a body of water.

Photograph - Richard Daintree and Antoine Fauchery, 'Open Forest Country Near Yan Yean', c. 1858, State Library Victoria

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Open forest country, near Yan Yean.

photograph : albumen silver ; 20.2 x 25.5 cm.

Black and white photograph of a large rock outcrop above a eucalypt forest.

Photograph - Richard Daintree, 'Drydens Rock', c. 1858, State Library Victoria

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Dryden's Rock is part of the Hanging Rock formation, mythologised in Joan Lindsey's novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock, on which Peter Weir's 1975 film was based.

photograph : albumen silver ; 20.7 x 25.6 cm.

Sepia photograph of a large eucalypt in lightly wooded country.

Photograph - Richard Daintree and Antoine Fauchery, 'Red Gum Tree', c. 1858, State Library Victoria

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Red Gum Tree

photograph : albumen silver ; 20.0 x 25.0 cm. approx.

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