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The Old Colonists Banquet Group [mosaic] [PRG 631/3] • Photograph

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Summary

Glass plate negative of one of at least two mosaics of photographic portraits created by Adelaide photographer Henry Jones to commemorate an Old Colonists' Banquet. The banquet was organised by merchant Emanuel Solomon at the Adelaide Town Hall on 28 December 1871 to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the founding of the colony of South Australia. This image lacks the subtitle dedication 'Duplicate of one Presented to E. Solomon Esq by H. Jones, Photographer for his liberality in giving the Banquet, Decr 1871' that is included on a different version held by the State Library of South Australia at B 47769. The mosaic contains portraits of 444 men, having none of the 71 portraits added to B 47769 after its initial production. Because of this, PRG 631/3 may represent the version of the mosaic presented to Solomon before his death in October 1873. The dedication may have been removed from the bottom of the mosaic after Solomon's death. Twenty-six of the portraits show the subjects in slightly different poses than depicted in B 47769. Their clothing is identical, indicating that the different portraits were taken at the same sitting at Jones' studio. The glass plate negative has written on it '1894. This copy made by Ernest Gall'. Because this version of the mosaic duplicates many of those on B 47769, only those that are different are linked to this record. To see other pioneers, do an ARCHIVAL NUMBER search on B 47769.

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Physical description

Negative (glass, full plate, B&W); 38 cm x 30.3 cm

Dates / Publication details

1894

Photographer

Gall, Ernest

Collections

Part of South Australia’s Old Colonists and Settlers Photographic Mosaics Collection
Part of Gall Collection
Part of Photographic Mosaic Collection

Subject

Pioneers -- South Australia

Catalogue record

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Formatted content

3O. ; 4H. ; 6A. ; 6S. ; 8L. ; 8M. ; 8O. ; 8Q. ; 8S. ; 12G. ; 13S. ; 15C. ; 15I. ; 15T. ; 16H. ; 16J. ; 19B. ; 20B. ; 20I. ; 20M. ; 21O. ; 21Q. ; 22D. ; 23A. ; 23H. ; 24N

General notes

This mosaic is a near duplicate of B 47769. For consistency, the portraits on this mosaic have been given the same coordinates as their counterparts on B 47769 and B 7677. As this mosaic has less portraits, there are gaps in the numbering, including no rows 1 and 2.

The date refers to the creation of the glass plate negative. The original mosaic of which this is a copy was begun in 1872 and completed in 1873.

Historical information

Henry Jones was born in Bristol, England in 1826. He arrived in Victoria in the late 1850s and in 1859 was listed as a daguerrean and photographic artist in Melbourne. Jones came to South Australia in 1866 and worked as an operator at Townsend Duryea's Adelaide photographic studio. By September 1868 he had his own studio in King William Street, opposite the Adelaide Town Hall. The business was known as the Children's Photographic Company from 1876. The studio moved premises within the city on several occasions until 1885, the last year that Jones is listed as a photographer in Sands & McDougall's South Australian Directory. Jones died in 1911 and was buried in the West Terrace cemetery.

Digitisation information

Date

01/02/2012

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

15,647 x 19,387 pixels (303.3 MP)

Size

910.08 MB

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