The Queen Victoria and Albert Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, seemed so intent on abrogating the name of Thomas J. Nevin as photographer from any association with its holdings of the “Port Arthur convicts” photographs which were exhibited there in … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2007
The journey from Hobart to Port Arthur 1873-4
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The notice below was published in Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac in 1873, at a time when the Port Arthur prison site on the Tasman Peninsula, 60 kms from Hobart, was still in operation. The traveller from Hobart faced a frequently interrupted, … Continue reading
NLA’s ‘Intersections’ with convict carte by Nevin
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Helen Ennis 2004 and the NLA collection … Intersections: Photography, History and the National Library of Australia By Helen Ennis ISBN 0 642 10792 0 pb, large format 270 b&w and colour photographs. 297 x 240mm 285pp Publisher: National Library … Continue reading
Key dates in Thomas Nevin’s life
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KEY CHRONOLOGY 1842-1923 SUMMARY Thomas J. Nevin produced large numbers of stereographs and cartes-de-visite within his commercial practice, and prisoner ID photographs on government contract and in civil service. He was one of the first photographers to work with the … Continue reading
Parkhurst Boys on board ‘The Fairlie’ 1852
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A Tasmanian pioneer family … Portraits by Thomas Nevin of his parents ca. 1871. Courtesy of © Denis Shelverton 2006-2007. ARR. Thomas Nevin’s father, John Nevin, served in the Royal Scots at the Canadian Rebellions 1837-8, before embarking on the … Continue reading