item details
NameSir George Arney, Chief Justice of NZ, Administrator 1873
ProductionHills & Saunders; photography studio; 1860s; London
Classificationcartes-de-visite, albumen prints, black-and-white prints, portraits
Materialssilver, printing-out paper, albumen, mounting board
Materials Summarycarte-de-visite, albumen silver print
Techniquesblack-and-white photography, photography
DimensionsImage: 59mm (width), 96mm (height)
Registration NumberO.004734
Overview
This extract originally appeared in New Zealand Photography Collected: 175 Years of Photography in Aotearoa (Te Papa Press, 2025) on page 34.
Until technology enabled photographic reproductions to appear in books, magazines and newspapers, the only way to own an image of a well-known personality was to buy a carte-de-visite from a studio. ...Sir George Arney was Chief Justice from 1858 to 1875.