Studio portrait of barrister Alexander George Dumas Jnr. Melbourne, 1880.

BATCHELDER & CO.

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Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of 'Batchelder & Co., Artists & Photographers, 41 Collins St. East, Melbourne', and an early caption in pencil identifying the sitter as 'A. G. Dumas'; print and mount are in fine condition. From an Australian carte de visite album that belonged to Claude Thomas Harper (1858-1954). Harper was an accountant who commenced his career in Melbourne before becoming branch manager of the London Chartered Bank in Ipswich, Queensland and later in Wilcannia, New South Wales. His album contained cartes collected in Melbourne in the 1860s by his parents, Henry Harper and Eliza Downes Harper (Prout), as well as other family portraits of later dates up to 1900. Claude Thomas Harper's older sister, Emmeline ArnoldHarper (1853-1916) married Melbourne barrister Alexander George Dumas, Jnr. (1848-1883). Alexander died in his mid-30s; he is buried in the St. Kilda Cemetery. The State Library of New South Wales holds the Dumas family papers, 1850-1881(A 4453/vol. 1 +A 4453/vol. 2), and also a carte de visite ofAlexander George Dumas (younger), husband of Emmeline Harper., May 1880 / Batchelder & Co., 41 Collins St. East(BOX 17: Mitchell Library, Small Pictures File, Donor Name collections: Donkin to Dumbrell, between 1850? and 1922?, item no. 69), which is presumably another copy of the carte de visite we offer here. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 44619

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