Yale Center for British Art

Title:

Album of the kings & queens of Victoria.

Alternate Title(s):

Album of the kings and queens of Victoria

Published / Created:

[Melbourne, Australia] : [Horace Perkins & Co.?], [approximately 1880?]

Physical Description:

1 folded sheet ([12] pages) : illustrations ; 14 x 109 cm, folded to 14 x 11 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
GN667.V53 A43 1880
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Cover title.

Concertina-folded series of 12 reproductions of Johann Friedrich Carl Kruger's photographic portraits of surviving leaders of Aboriginal tribes of Victoria, originally taken between 1866 and 1878. The rear paste-down bears a short essay titled "The kings and queens of Victoria : the Australian aboriginal."

Ferguson, 5809

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original blue cloth-backed paper boards. Title stamped in gilt on front cover within decorative border. Signed: Archie L. Gates.

Subject Terms:

Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Victoria -- Portraits. | Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Victoria -- History. | Gates, Archie L., -- Provenance. | Aboriginal Australians. | Victoria.

Form/Genre:

Accordion fold format (Binding) | Portraits.

Contributors:

Kruger, Fred, 1831–1888, photographer.