Portrait of Edward TYW McDonald,] 1848. Photographer: JW Newland. Macleay Collections: SC1977.40.6
In the mid-19th, century having your portrait taken was all the rage. Daguerreotype photography was a new technology and in this talk art historians Dr Elisa deCourcy and Dr Martyn Jolly, in-conversation with Dr Donna West Brett, will examine JW Newland’s lively 1848 portrait of Sydney publican Edward McDonald and connect it to the intricate local, imperial and global visual economies in which it was embedded.
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