Elijah Hart b.

Also known as E. H.
  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer, he ran his own businesses in Sydney and later Maitland, NSW in the 1850s and 1860s. He invented the 'Saronytype' photograph.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 15724/1893’.

  • (1872), 'Newcastle Business Directory and Hunter River Almanac’.

  • (June 1989), 'Masterpieces of Australian Photography’, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Paddington, NSW, .

  • Davies, Alan & Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press.

  • Cato, J. (1955), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Nicholls, M. (ed.) (1973), 'Traveller under Concern’, Launceston, Tas.

  • (1927), 'Australia, New Zealand and the South Seas, Africa and the East Indies’, Museum Book Store, London, England.

  • (13 May 1854), Illustrated Sydney Advertiser.

  • Information sourced from Henderson, B.

  • Information sourced from Callaway, A.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870