Janus: Miscellaneous Portraits

RCS contains:
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Y3011MMM-XXX	A journey to Asia and Africa
Y3011O	Mr Menzies and Mr Mackenzie King leaving the War Cabinet Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, 19 May 1941
Y3011P	Cruise of the Yacht St George, 1880s-92
Y3011Q	Army uniforms of the Empire and Commonwealth, 1860s-1940s
Y3011R	Progress in the Colonies, 1940s-1950s
Y3011T	Miscellaneous Portraits
Y3011U	Institute of Education Collection
Y3011WW	Inter-University Council Collection
Y3011X	South African Cricketer in the Western Desert [i.e. As Sahra' al Gharbiyah]
Y3011XX	Sir Raynor Arthur Collection
Y3011Z	Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford, Group Photograph, 1926
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Miscellaneous Portraits

Title	Miscellaneous Portraits
Reference	GBR/0115/Y3011T
Creator	Various
Covering Dates	1860- (The earliest photographs date from the 1860s.)
Extent and Medium	54 images in 1 file
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

A collection of loose prints, not from one source, but intended as an open-ended collection to include miscellaneous portraits gathered by the Library at various times.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Miscellaneous Portraits, Y3011T

Further information

This collection level description was entered by KS using information from the original typescript catalogue.

This collection is available on microfiche: General Collections, fiche number 17-19.

RCS/Y3011T contains:

Balfour [Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour (1848-1930)]. 142 x 192 mm. Mounted on card. Head and shoulders profile portrait, signed 'Balfour' on the mount. Balfour was Chief Secretary for Ireland 1887-91, Prime Minister 1902-05 and Foreign Secretary 1916-19. Photograph by VanDyk Ltd., 41 Buckingham Palace Road, London.
Creator: VanDyk Limited.
Fair condition, although surface and mount damaged from beiong bent at some time. Slight fading and dirt marking..

Mr. Kyrle Bellew [Harold Kyrle Money Bellew (1855-1911)]. 90 x 119 mm. Mounted on card. Carbon print head and shoulders profile portrait of the actor Kyrle Bellew. Bellew worked as a labourer and miner and later as a reporter in Victoria in the early 1870s, before starting his acting career. His touring company visited Australia in 1890 and 1896 and in 1900 he returned to Australia to speculate in mining. He later retired to the USA. Photograph by Alfred Ellis, 20 Upper Baker Street, London.
Creator: Ellis, Alfred, fl c 1880-1911, photographer.
Good condition..

The late Viscount Bennett [Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett (1870-1947)]. 112 x 147 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of Richard Bedford Bennett, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada 1927-38 and Prime Minister of Canada 1930-35. A pencilled annotation on the reverse states 'A first Benefactor of the Society'. Photograph by Walter Stoneman of J. Russell and Sons, 63 Baker Street, London.
Creator: Stoneman, Walter, fl ?, photographer.
Good condition..

St Laurent [Louis Stephen St Laurent (1882-1973)]. 196 x 239 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of Louis Stephen St Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada 1948-57, seated at a desk. Photograph by The National Film Board of Canada.
Creator: The National Film Board of Canada.
Fair condition, a few folds and small tear in the print..

[Walter Charles Fitzmaurice Burfitt (1874-1956)]. 137 x 187 mm. Mounted on card. Half length portrait of Walter Charles Fitzmaurice Burfitt, surgeon and Honorary Secretary of the Australian Historical Society 1909-14. The print is inscribed: 'Yours obliged C.J. Burfit Hon. Secretary Australian Histl. Society, April 1912'. Photograph by Talma and Co., 374 George Street, Sydney.
Creator: Talma and Co.
Fair condition, some tarnishing of image..

Apr. 1912

Mary E. Chamberlain [Mary C Endicott Chamberlain (c.1863- )]. 136 x 191 mm. Print mounted in matt. Three quarter length portrait of Mary Chamberlain, daughter of American judge and Secretary of State for War W.C. Endicott and third wife of Joseph Chamberlain (m. 1888). Photograph by Speaight, 157 New Bond Street, London.
Creator: Speaight.
Good condition..

B. Fairfax Conigrave. 145 x 192 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of Berkeley Fairfax Conigrave. Conigrave joined the Royal Colonial Institute in 1898 and served on its Council from 1924-30. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment for fraud in 1934. Photograph by J. Russell and Son, 73 Baker Street, London.
Creator: James Russell and Sons.
Good condition..

[Marcus Moziah Garvey (1887-1940)]. 151 x 185 mm. Head and shoulders portrait (?rephotographed from a book) of Marcus Moziah Garvey, the black separatist leader and founder of the 'Back to Africa' movement. Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association (UNIA) in 1914, and the Black Star Shipping Line in 1919. It was in connection with the latter venture that he served a prison sentence in the USA from 1925-27. Photographer unknown.
Good condition..

Marcus Garvey. 107 x 132 mm. Head and shoulders portrait (?rephotographed from a book) of Marcus Moziah Garvey, the black separatist leader and founder of the 'Back to Africa' movement. Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association (UNIA) in 1914, and the Black Star Shipping Line in 1919. It was in connection with the latter venture that he served a prison sentence in the USA from 1925-27. Photographer unknown.
Good condition..

Sir Lancelot Graham, 1880-1958, Governor of Sind 1936-41. 189 x 242 mm. Print mounted on card. Head and shoulders portraitof Sir Lancelot Graham, Indian Civil Service 1904-41, Governor of Sind 1936-41. Photograph by Bassano, 88 Dover Street, London.
Creator: Bassano, Alexander, 1829-1913, photographer.
Fair condition, some tarnishing..

Viscount Wolseley. 93 x 140 mm. Mounted on card. Head and shoulder side portrait of Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1833-1913), a distinguished soldier and army reformer thought by some to be responsible for the efficiency of the 'modern' British Army of the First World War. The side profile may be due to the fact that he was severely wounded by a shell in 1855, cauusing him to lose sight in one eye. Photograph by W. and D. Downey, 57 and 61 Ebury Street, London.
Creator: W and D Downey.
Good condition..

Sir George Grey, K.C.B., 1861. 70 x 92 mm. Oval print. Three quarter length portrait of Sir Edward George Grey seated with his elbow resting on a table. Grey entered the Army in 1829 and spent periods of exploration in Australia in 1837 and 1839-40. He was Lieutenant Governor of South Australia 1841-45, Governor of New Zealand 1846-54 and 1861-67, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope 1854-61 and Prime Minister of New Zealand 1877-79. This portrait is accompanied by a letter from Adolphe Beau of Forest Hill to the Secretary of the Royal Colonial Institute (dated 29 September 1898) offering copies for sale of this photograph. Beau states that: 'Having among my negatives of portraits, - (carefully preserved since relinquishing my studio in Regent Street) an excellent likeness of the late Sir George Grey, I believe it might interest many of his friends to know that such portrait is in existence ... Should you wish to see the same, I would be glad to call on you on my next coming to town, at the same time supplying you with any information as to sizes and prices'. A further note, of 3 October, states that he will bring a copy of the portrait to the Institute the following day. How Beau obtained the negative is unknown, and the date is certainly incorrect.
Good condition, apart from some retouching..

1861

Sir G Huggins. 153 x 187 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of Godfrey Martin Huggins, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia 1933-53 and Federal Prime Minister 1953-56. Photograph by Press Portrait Bureau.
Creator: Press Portrait Bureau.
Fair condition, some folds and yellowing..

Sir Henry Jourdain. 221 x 287 mm. Mounted on card. Full length portrait in uniform of Sir Henry John Jourdain (1835-1901), Member of Council of Government, Mauritius 1868-74. Photograph by F. Downer, Watford.
Creator: Downer, Frederick, fl 1880-1889, photographer.
Good condition..

1936 - Kirk, Sir John, 1832-1922. 149 x 202 mm. Photographic copy of a head and shoulders painting by Alexander H. Kirk, 1915. After servingas Chief Officer on the Livingstone Zambesi Expedition of 1858-63, he obtained a position in 1866 as Medical Officer at the British Consulate in Zanzibar. He served in Zanzibar as Political Agent and Consul General from 1873-87. National Portait Gallery photograph.
Creator: National Portrait Gallery.
Good condition..

1936

Sir Godfrey Lagden. 144 x 197 mm. Mounted on card and signed on the mount. Head and shoulders portrait of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden (1851-1934). Lagden joined the Civil Service in 1869 and worked in the Post Office until 1877. He became Chief Clerk to the State Secretary of the Transvaal in 1878 and in the following years acted as Secretary to various administrators, continuing his career in West Africa before being appointed Government Secretary, Basutoland in 1884. He served as Resident Commissioner, Basutoland 1893-1901, Commissioner for Native Affairs, Transvaal 1901-07 and Chairman, Inter-Colonial South African Native Affairs Commission 1902-04. Photograph by Russell and Sons, Baker Street, London.
Creator: James Russell and Sons.
Fair condition, some tarnishing of image..

Mr A Bradley Lambert. 140 x 189 mm. Mounted on card. Half length portrait of Arthur Bradley Lambert (1858-1929), sometime General Manager of the Great Western Railway. Photograph by Russell and Sons, Baker Street, London.
Creator: James Russell and Sons.
Good condition..

Sir Thomas Lennard. 148 x 200 mm. Mounted on paper. Head and shoulders portrait of Sir Thomas J. Lennard (1861-1938), businessman and sometime Vice President of the Royal Empire Society. Photograph by Elliott and Fry.
Creator: Elliott and Fry.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

Most Hon The Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India. 147 x 198 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of Victor Alexander John Hope (1887-1952), the 2nd Marquis of Linlithgow, a Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1922-24 and Viceroy of India 1936-43. Photograph by Bassano, 38 Dover Street, London.
Creator: Bassano, Alexander, 1829-1913, photographer.
Fair condition, some tarnishing..

Mar. 1936

Sydney Lipton. 101 x 151 mm. Mounted on card. Head and shoulders portrait of Sydney Lipton (b. 1884). No biographical information apart from the following annotation on the reverse of the mount: 'Sydney Lipton F.R.C.I. A.M.I.C.E. 10th February 1923. Age 38½'. Photographer unknown.
Good condition..

10 Feb. 1923

Portrait of the late Lord Milner. 155 x 207 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of Sir Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854-1925), seated at a desk. Milner served as Under Secretary for Finance in Egypt 1889-92, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue 1892-97, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope 1897-1901, Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony 1901-05, High Commissioner for South Africa 1897-1905, Secretary of State for War 1918-19 and Secretary of State for the Colonies 1919-21. Photograph by The Times.
Creator: The Times.
Good condition, apart from a few folds..

Sir Daniel Morris. 127 x 179 mm. Three quarter length portrait showing Sir Daniel Morris (1844-1933) seated in a stiff-backed armchair. Morris was a distinguished botanist, specialising particularly in the economic botany of Britain's colonial possessions. He was appointed Assistant Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon in 1887 and served as Director of the Jamaica Botanic Department from 1879-86. He was Assistant Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew from 1886-98. Photograph by Marceau, 258 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Creator: Marceau, - , fl 1920-1929, photographer.
Good condition..

Le Roi de la Ruanda 'Musinga', Afrique orientle All occupation Belge. 112 x 140 mm. Photograph copy from a screened photograph showing Musinga in conversation with an unidentified uniformed European. King Yuhi V Musinga ruled Ruanda from 1896-1931. Print stamped on reverse: 'Commissariat General - Association Internationale D'etudes Franco-Belge Africaine - Paris' and dated '1920'.

1920

R Lewis Parker, Tasmania 1930. 103 x 142 mm. Photographic copy of Robert Lewis Parker (1862-1948) of Tasmania, a Life Fellow of the Royal Empire Society. He was an Associate Commissioner of the Hydro-Electric Department of the Government of Tasmania until 1936.
Good condition..

1930

Sir James Parr KCMG, High Com'r for New Zealand. 110 x 156 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of Sir Christopher James Parr (1869-1941), Minister of Public Health, New Zealand 1920-23, of Justice 1923-26 and High Commissioner in London 1926-29 and 1934-36. Photographer unknown.
Good condition..

23 Oct. 1926

Edward Salmon (1865-1955), Ed United Empire. 103 x 125 mm. Oval print mounted on card. Head and shoulders portrait of Edward Salmon OBE, author and journalist. Salmon was editor of Home News for India and Australia 1889-99, the Saturday Review 1899-1913, The British Dominions Year-book 1916-24, and United Empire 1920-37. Photograph by Russell and Sons, Baker Street, London.
Creator: James Russell and Sons.
Good condition..

William Scoresby (1789-1857), D.D., F.R.S. 82 X 115 MM. Photographic copy of either a painting or a retouched photograph. Head and shoulders portrait of William Scoresby, master mariner and divine. There are two annotations on the reverse; the ink one states 'Master mariner. Monument in St. Mary Magdalene, Upton, Torquay. (see D.N.B.)' and the pencilled one 'Presented by Cdr. Damer Powell'. Photographer unknown.
Good condition..

[Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917)]. 196 x 146 mm. Photograph of the portrait bust of Frederick Selous in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. Selous was a hunter and naturalist of international repute and served as guide and intelligence officer to the pioneer column which founded Southern Rhodesia in 1890. Photographer unknown.
Fair condition, some yellowing and folds..

[Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950)]. 165 x 214 mm. Full length portrait showing Smuts seated on a tree trunk beside a woodland path. In his political capacity Smuts served as Minister of the Interior, South Africa 1910-12, Minister of Defence 1910-20, Minister of Finance 1912-13, Prime Minister 1919-24 and 1939-48, and Minister of Justice 1933-39. Portrait signed by Smuts on (detached) mount. Photographer unknown.
Good condition..

Jan Christiaan Smuts. 121 x 165 mm. Head and shoulders portrait. In his political capacity Field Marshall Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) served as Minister of the Interior, South Africa 1910-12, Minister of Defence 1910-20, Minister of Finance 1912-13, Prime Minister 1919-24 and 1939-48, and Minister of Justice 1933-39. Photograph by Walter Stoneman of Russell and Sons, 63 Baker Street, London.
Creator: Stoneman, Walter, fl ?, photographer.
Good condition..

Sir James Stevenson. 132 x 167 mm. Photographic copy of a painted or heavily retouched photographic portrait. James Stevenson, 1st Baron Stevenson (1873-1926) was Director of Area Organisation, Ministry of Munitions 1915-17, Surveyor General of Supply, War Office 1919-21, Member of the Army Council 1921, and Member of the Air Council 1919-21. A pencilled annotation on the reverse states 'Lord Stevenson deceased Jun/26'. Photograph by VanDyk Limited.
Creator: VanDyk Limited.
Good condition, apart from slight yellowing..

[Henry Bull Templar Strangways (1832-1920)]. 98 x 144 mm. Head and shoulders profile portrait of Henry Bull Templar Strangways, Premier of South Australia 1868-70. The mount is inscribed: 'Yours truly H.B.J. Strangways February 21st 1898'. Photograph by Elliott and Fry.
Creator: Elliott and Fry.
Good condition..

21 Feb. 1898

Tagore with Michael Ney. 194 x 248 mm. Signed half length profile portrait in soft focus of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the Bengali poet, writer and artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Seated on Tagore's lap is Michael Ney (c. 1925-1954), the son of Major Frederick Ney, founder of the Commonwealth Youth Movement. Michael Ney was killed in Kenya while acting as a police officer during the Mau Mau emergency. This photograph was taken during the Conference on Education held at Victoria and Vancouver in April 1929. This photograph was used in the Commonwealth in Focus Exhibition, 1982.
Good condition..

Apr. 1929

Te Puni, Maori Chief of Wellington. 150 x 201 mm. Mounted on card. Photographic copy of a full length painted portrait of the Maori chief Te Puni. No further bigraphical details. The reverse of the mount is annotated 'With the compliments of Sir R.D.D. Mclean of Wellington'. Photographer unknown.
Good condition..

W.C. Wentworth. 115 x 140 mm. Oval print. Head and shoulders portrait (copied from an older photograph) of William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872), Australian explorer, author, barrister and statesman. Wentworth was educated in England and returned to Australia in 1810. Three years later, in 1813, he carried out an important piece of exploration in the crossing of the Blue mountains and in 1824 was admitted to the Sydney Bar. In the same year he became a co-founder of The Australian newspaper. In 1850 he became a co-founder of Sydney University. The later years of his life were spent in England. For an appreciation of Wentworth's contribution to the political development of Australia, see entry in (Pike 1966, pp. 582-589).
Fair condition, some tarnishing of image..

W.C. Wentworth. 54 x 89 mm. Three quarter length portrait of William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872), Australian explorer, author, barrister and statesman, copied from an older original. Wentworth was educated in England and returned to Australia in 1810. Three years later, in 1813, he carried out an important piece of exploration in the crossing of the Blue mountains and in 1824 was admitted to the Sydney Bar. In the same year he became a co-founder of The Australian newspaper. In 1850 he became a co-founder of Sydney University. The later years of his life were spent in England. For an appreciation of Wentworth's contribution to the political development of Australia, see entry in (Pike 1966, pp. 582-589). Photographer unknown.
Fair condition, some tarnishing..

William Charles Wentworth, Woolner Medallion. 242 x 217 mm. Photograph of the Woolner Medallion, featuring a profile portrait of William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872), Australian explorer, author, barrister and statesman. Wentworth was educated in England and returned to Australia in 1810. Three years later, in 1813, he carried out an important piece of exploration in the crossing of the Blue mountains and in 1824 was admitted to the Sydney Bar. In the same year he became a co-founder of The Australian newspaper. In 1850 he became a co-founder of Sydney University. The later years of his life were spent in England. For an appreciation of Wentworth's contribution to the political development of Australia, see entry in (Pike 1966, pp. 582-589). Photographer unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

[Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquis of Willingdon (1866-1941)]. 140 x 195 mm. Mounted on card. Full length portrait of the 1st Marquis of Willingdon and his wife Marie Adelaide (d. 1960). Willingdon was MP for Hastings 1900-06 and for Bodmin 1906-10. He was a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1905-12, Governor of Bombay 1913-19, of Madras 1919-24, Governor-General of Canada 1926-31 and Viceroy of India 1931-36. He married Lady Marie Adelaide, daughter of the 1st Earl Brassey, in 1892. The photograph is signed 'Willingdon' and 'Marie Willingdon 1924'. Photographers signature undeciphered.
Good condition..

1924

[Major General Orde Charles Wingate (1903-1944)]. 148 x 195 mm. Three quarter length portrait of Major General Orde Charles Wingate in bush uniform, probably taken in Burma. Wingate entered the Royal Artillery in 1923; he was attached to the Sudan Defence Force 1928-33 and served in Palestine and Trans-Jordan 1936-39. He was active behind enemy lines in Ethiopia in 1940-41 and was then selected to take charge of units to operate behind enemy lines in Burma. For this task he was promoted Temporary Brigadier General with the title of Commander of Special Force, India Command in 1943. He died in an unexplained aeroplane crash in the Naga Hills of Northern Assam. Imperial War Museum photograph.
Creator: Imperial War Museum.
Good condition..

[Major General James Wolfe (1727-1759)]. 153 x 184 mm. Photographic copy of a supposed three quarter length portrait of Wolfe against a background of ships of the line. Wolfe served in the Army from 1742 and after much active campaigning commanded the force which captured Quebec from the French in 1759, he himself dying in the hour of victory. The portrait is accompanied by a letter of 2 October 1925 from W. Morgan which apparently relates to enquiries to authenticate the picture: 'I am enclosing you a photograph of my portrait of 'Wolfe' which I should be glad if you would accept. The size of it is the same as the portrait in our own National Portrait Gallery but I like mine best as the seascape background with the three decker line of battleships is so attractive. I have taken your advice, and am in communication with the high Commissioner for Canada'. Photographer unknown.
Good condition..

[Portrait of an unidentified European in Arab dress]. 133 x 188 mm. Head and shoulders profile portrait of an elderly bearded European man in Arab costume. No biographical details. Photographer unknown.
Good condition..

[Unidentified portrait]. 183 x 221 mm. Photographic copy of a half length portrait of an unidentified man painted by Harrington Mann, 1920. Photograph by Henry Dixon and Son, 112 Albany Street, London.
Creator: Henry Dixon and Son.
Good condition..

[George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon (1877-1955)]. 168 x 216 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of the 6th Earl of Clarendon, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs 1925-27, Chairman of the BBC 1927-30, Governor General of South Africa 1931-37. Photograph by Walter Stoneman.
Creator: Stoneman, Walter, fl ?, photographer.
Fair condition, some folds along bottom edge of print..

[A. Seymour Brown]. 100 x 146 mm. Mounted on card. Head and shoulders portrait, in uniform, of A. Seymour Brown OBE, MD, MRCS, a major in the New Zealand Medical Corps. Photograph by Elliott and Fry.
Creator: Elliott and Fry.
Good condition..

Sir Henry Francis (Harry) Wilson (1859-1937). 154 x 205 mm. Mounted on card. Head and shoulders portrait of Sir Harry Wilson, Colonial Secretray, Orange River Colony 1902-07 and Secretary of the Royal Colonial Institute 1915-21. Photograph by Bassano.
Creator: Bassano, Alexander, 1829-1913, photographer.
Good condition..

Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons (1821-1903). 230 x 293 mm. Half length seated portrait, in uniform, of Field Marshal Sir John Simmons. Simmons entered the Royal Engineers in 1837. His later appointments included; Secretary, Railway Department of the Board of Trade 1851-54, Commissioner with the Ottoman Army 1854-56, Consul General, Warsaw 1857-60, Commandant of Royal Engineers, Aldershot 1860-65, Director of the School of Military Engineering, Chatham 1865-68, Governor of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich 1870-75, Inspector General of Fortifications 1875-80, Governor of Malta 1884-88. This is a modern print, but probably taken from the original negative. Photographer unknown.
Good condition..

[Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902)]. 101 x 145 mm. Mounted on card. Three quarters profile view of the bust of Rhodes by Conrad Dressler. After amassing a fortune in the diamond mining industry at Kimberley and the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines Company in 1888, Rhodes set about building his dream of a federal South African dominion under the rule of the British flag. He was instrumental in the founding of Rhodesia in 1890, but his plans were cut short when he was forced to resign the premiership of Cape Colony in 1896 after the abortive Jameson Raid of the previous year. This bust, described as 'a remarkable work' in (Brookner 1956), was presented to the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir James Blyth in 1905. It has since been disposed of. Photograph by Elliott and Fry.
Creator: Elliott and Fry.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

[Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902)]. 101 x 145 mm. Mounted on card. Full face view of the bust of Rhodes by Conrad Dressler. After amassing a fortune in the diamond mining industry at Kimberley and the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines Company in 1888, Rhodes set about building his dream of a federal South African dominion under the rule of the British flag. He was instrumental in the founding of Rhodesia in 1890, but his plans were cut short when he was forced to resign the premiership of Cape Colony in 1896 after the abortive Jameson Raid of the previous year. This bust, described as 'a remarkable work' in (Brookner 1956), was presented to the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir James Blyth in 1905. It has since been disposed of. Photograph by Elliott and Fry.
Creator: Elliott and Fry.
Good condition..

[Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902)]. 102 x 145 mm. Mounted on card. Three quarters full face view of the bust of Rhodes by Conrad Dressler. After amassing a fortune in the diamond mining industry at Kimberley and the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines Company in 1888, Rhodes set about building his dream of a federal South African dominion under the rule of the British flag. He was instrumental in the founding of Rhodesia in 1890, but his plans were cut short when he was forced to resign the premiership of Cape Colony in 1896 after the abortive Jameson Raid of the previous year. This bust, described as 'a remarkable work' in (Brookner 1956), was presented to the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir James Blyth in 1905. It has since been disposed of. Photograph by Elliott and Fry.
Creator: Elliott and Fry.
Fair condition, some fading..

Bust of Rev. John Radcliffe presented by F Curdall [?] Esq., Jamaica. 182 x 226 mm. Photograph of a portrait bust of the Revd. John Radcliffe (d.1893) standing at the entrance of an unidentified building (?possibly the Jamaica Institute, of which he appears to have been a founder). Photographer unknown.
Fairish condition, some fading in bottom half of print..

[Unidentified male]. 200 x 242 mm. A photograph of a drawing of a man sitting at a desk writing a letter. The signature on the drawing is too small to identify. Photographer unknown.
Fair condition, with some tears and fading..

[Unidentified male]. 150 x 178 mm. A photograph of a head and shoulders portrait painting of a man sitting with a book on his lap. No identifying marks on discernible on the painting. Photographer unknown.
Good condition..

Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862). 194 x 246 mm. A photograph of a painting of Wakefield seated in an armchair with three dogs at his feet. The annotation on the reverse states 'From a portrait painted for the New Zealand Company in 1844, and now in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand'. Photograph by Green and Hahn.
Creator: Green and Hahn Photography Limited.
Fair condition..