パワーハウスミュージアムのインスタグラム(powerhousemuseum) - 6月9日 12時21分

?Can't wait for the long weekend? Today's #PhotoOfTheDay is the detail from a positive of a black and white glass plate negative depicting a portrait of an articulated skeleton. It is seated on a bentwood chair in a room featuring a tiled floor and wash basin with a single tap on a stand. This collection of glass plate negatives was acquired by the Museum in the 1980s and appears to have been made by a Sydney based photographic studio from around 1880 through to 1920. The images are on both whole and half plate negatives and many of the larger images are of a high quality.

The Museum has a significant collection of glass plates, such as those held in the Tyrrell and Clyde Engineering collections. This group of negatives complements and strengthens the Museum's holdings of this particular photographic resource.

The photographic glass plate negative was photographed and produced in Australia, c. 1900. There have been suggestions that the Phillips collection of photographs was created by Harry Phillips, (1873-1944), an early twentieth century photographer born in Ballarat and best known for his photographs of the Blue Mountains. Recent museum research has shown that the photographer Harry J. Phillips, the uncle of Raymond W. Phillips, was born in Sydney in 1872. There does not appear to be any connection between the families of the Ballarat-born Harry Phillips and Harry J. Phillips.

The donor Raymond Phillips was a rotograver and for many years was responsible for the Australian Women's Weekly cover. His father, Arthur Phillips, was a gold and silver merchant and was possibly the photographer of the glass plate negatives. In 1920, the family moved from Willoughby to Latimer Road, Bellevue Hill. A bachelor, Raymond Phillips remained in the house after his parents' death. The slides were found in a deal box in the garage. #POTD #MAAScollection #ArthurPhillips #NeedsADadJoke #humerus #WaitingForPizza
Object statement
Glass plate negative (1 of 193), portrait of an articulated skeleton on a bentwood chair, glass, photographer possibly Arthur Phillips, Australia, c. 1895-1905

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