Circa 1875
Containing sixty-five uncredited albumen print photographs by Nicholas Caire and others of various of major public buildings and views around Melbourne together with views of the Yarra at the Botanic Gardens and further upstream, some views in country Victoria, and seven in Tasmania and Fiji, sixty of smaller format (13 x 18.5cm) mounted four to a leaf within red ruled borders and five larger format mount singly, red morocco, the covers panelled with gilt-tooled borders, the front gilt-lettered 'Australian Views'
The album 50.5cm high, 40cm wide, 5cm deep
Estimate $1,200 - $1,800
Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch (1827–1900), Governor of Victoria, 1884–1889 (according to previous cataloguing)
(Presumably) Christie's, Lord Loch Library, 30 October 1986
Denis Joachim (1938–2022), Melbourne
Mossgreen Auctions, The Denis Joachim Collection, Melbourne, 20 June 2016, lot 491 (unsold)
Leski Auctions, Australian and Historical, Melbourne, 19 November, 2023, lot 979
Decorative Arts
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8826
6:00pm - 16 November 2026
Hawthorn
VIEWING
Fri 13 - Sun 15 November, 11am - 5pm
2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC
CONTACT
Chiara Curcio
decorativearts@leonardjoel.com.au
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