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when, due to losses, the How merchant company had ceased business. It appears How did not continue to make photographs after this downturn in fortune. Her husband James died in about 1869, and a year later she relocated to Heaton, also in
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Aboriginal companion 'Tiger’, the settlers Charles Morison from Glenmorison, New England and John Glen. Photography historian Gael Newton admires How's "fine sense of composition" and Judy Annear notes that her portraits are "most compelling, posed and yet relaxed, outdoor, convivial and
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and stereo cards, so as to shorten exposure conditions with brighter lighting, but make it appear that the pictures were made indoors. The resultant prints are amongst forty-eight salted paper prints from the period
October 1857 to January 1859 in her only surviving album, carefully titled and
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How, whose surviving output is found in one album made over only two years, was evidently an accomplished and enthusiastic artist whose photographic knowledge was derived, historians surmise, from any of several possible sources; perhaps from practitioners in
England before migrating, from her
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In the same month of 1858 that the earliest exclusively photographic exhibition was held in
Australia was mounted at the Sydney Philosophical Society, How made portraits of her guests on Christmas Day and Boxing Day at Woodlands. She set up a makeshift studio on her verandah, using
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Her varied subjects include visitors to
Woodlands, appearing relaxing in conversation, drinking and dining, several in groups and some of those more formal, and the rest being individual portraits; the merchants George S. Caird, Robert P. Paterson and Hendricks Anderson, the explorer
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James How was employed by Joseph
Raleigh, a merchant and wharf owner and by 1857 was listed as one of the principal directors of How, Walker & Co., a merchant and shipping business started by a relative, Robert How. The family resided at 'Woodlands', next door to the present-day
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There are plausible claims that it was Hetzer's wife Thekla who, from 1850 assisted him at his studio at 15 Hunter Street, who was the first woman photographer in
Australia, but no works known to be hers have survived. Hall and Mather suggest that
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Octavius, 1802-1870, (photographer.); Adamson, Robert, 1821-1848, (photographer.); Adamson, John, 1809-1870, (photographer.); Schaaf, Larry J. (Larry John), 1947-, (author.) (2002),
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Louisa How may before her migration have been taught the medium at professional studios in England, but more likely she learned from William Hetzer to make
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supplementary textual content.); Batchen, Geoffrey, (writer of supplementary textual content.); Art Gallery of New South Wales, (issuing body.) (2015),
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Persons on Bounty Ships Arriving at Port Phillip: Assisted Passage 1849-51. Series: State Archives & Records NSW, NSW Government 4/4817, reel 2145
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at this moment remains the best and most practical of the photographic processes hitherto proposed” compared to the
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283:"How, Louisa Elizabeth (1821-1893) - People and organisations"
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engraving from the same volume, a portrait on page 297 of
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on 28 November 1849 under the assisted passage scheme. In
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Louisa How, Boatsheds, Kirribilli Point, Sydney Harbour
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camera, and the selection of lenses; a report on M.
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Australian art in the National Gallery of Australia
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Each wild idea : writing, photography, history
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252:National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
852:"Untitled album [Louisa How album]"
830:, Taylor & Francis Group, p. 716,
713:Over the straits : a visit to Victoria
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380:"A Lady: from an Untitled Album"
1190:"NGA collection search results"
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