Lewis Thompson reclining at a waterfall, Grose Valley 1875
Notes: Enlarged portion of a larger print, taken in the Grose Valley on the second artists' camp (Oct. 1875) under the patronage of Frederick Eccleston Du Faur, see comment box below. The man in the photo, and his distinctive hat, appear in a photo of Du Faur's 'camp keepers', and is named as Lewis Thompson. He also acted as photographic assistant to Bischoff and is shown in an 1875 photograph taken in the Grose, see p.27 in Blue Mountains Pictorial Memories by John Low (1991).
Described as a 'modest unsophisticated bushman', he was the sole survivor of the ill-fated 1874 Andrew Hume expedition in search of Adolph Classen, the sole survivor of Ludwig Leichhardt's 1848 inland expedition, and 'whose loyalty to his leader no one can doubt after hearing his simple tale', see link and full article below.
Format: Albumen silver photo print by Joseph Bischoff (c.1832-1903).
Date Range: about 1875
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection, the Bibliophile Album
Provenance: From a photo album produced in the mid 1880s
Links:
albumen.conservation-us.org/library/c20/reilly1980.html
XPEDITION IN SEARCH OF CLASSEN. (1875, February 13). Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter (NSW : 1868 - 1875), p. 4. Retrieved October 23, 2023, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104117718
Lewis Thompson reclining at a waterfall, Grose Valley 1875
Notes: Enlarged portion of a larger print, taken in the Grose Valley on the second artists' camp (Oct. 1875) under the patronage of Frederick Eccleston Du Faur, see comment box below. The man in the photo, and his distinctive hat, appear in a photo of Du Faur's 'camp keepers', and is named as Lewis Thompson. He also acted as photographic assistant to Bischoff and is shown in an 1875 photograph taken in the Grose, see p.27 in Blue Mountains Pictorial Memories by John Low (1991).
Described as a 'modest unsophisticated bushman', he was the sole survivor of the ill-fated 1874 Andrew Hume expedition in search of Adolph Classen, the sole survivor of Ludwig Leichhardt's 1848 inland expedition, and 'whose loyalty to his leader no one can doubt after hearing his simple tale', see link and full article below.
Format: Albumen silver photo print by Joseph Bischoff (c.1832-1903).
Date Range: about 1875
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection, the Bibliophile Album
Provenance: From a photo album produced in the mid 1880s
Links:
albumen.conservation-us.org/library/c20/reilly1980.html
XPEDITION IN SEARCH OF CLASSEN. (1875, February 13). Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter (NSW : 1868 - 1875), p. 4. Retrieved October 23, 2023, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104117718