Robert Dalzell Ward b. 1819

  • Artist (Photographer)
Ward was the first medical practitioner in the district of North Sydney, NSW. He was a keen amateur photographer, mainly taking local views. His best-known photograph is a panorama of Sydney Harbour taken from the North Shore and showing Observatory Hill, Millers Point and Sydney University in the distance.

Citations

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : V1854927 41B/1854’.

  • 'NSW Death Records : 6874/1902’.

  • Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, Victoria.

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

  • Morgan, C. (1988), 'Life and Death on the North Side’, North Sydney, New South Wales.

  • (20 May 1902), Australasian Medical Gazette.

  • Rumsey, H.J., 'North Shore in 1860: Photographs taken by Dr R.D. Ward’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.

  • Information sourced by Morgan, Chris.

Initial data sources

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