Miss Hampson

  • Artist (Photographer)
One of Victoria's earliest female photographers, Hampson specialised in collodion portraits of women. No surviving examples have been located.

Citations

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

  • (1855), Argus, 01-31.

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

Initial data sources

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