Charles Hake

  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer and surveyor, Charles Hake was an assistant to the surveyor and photographer Arthur Hamilton at the Adams Bay settlement, Northern Territory in 1864-65.
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professional photographer and surveyor, was assistant to the surveyor and photographer Arthur Hamilton at the Adams Bay settlement (Northern Territory) in 1864-65. Surviving wet-plate photographs include views of the coastline, the three ships which brought the party to the settlement, the tents being erected, the landing of the stores, the erection of the military quarters, other views of the settlement and the local Aboriginal people, and various landscapes (private collection, copies Royal Historical Society of Victoria). The two men took their photographic equipment with them on 7 May 1865 when with five others they abandoned the settlement in an open boat wryly named Forlorn Hope . When they arrived at Geraldton, Western Australia, three months later, Hake and Hamilton decided to remain and set up as professional photographers.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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Sources
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870
  • Photohistory of SA, Art Gallery of South Australia
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870
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References [<ExternalResource: Cato, J. (1955), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Hill, E. (1977), 'The Territory', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Kerr, M. (1971), 'The Surveyors: The Story of the Founding of Darwin', Adelaide, SA.>, <ExternalResource: Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light', Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: Stow, J. (1894), 'The Voyage of the Forlorn Hope', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Noye, R.J. (2007) ‘Dictionary of South Australian Photography 1845-1915’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. CD-ROM.>, <ExternalResource: Photohistory SA Archived Website>] [<ExternalResource: Cato, J. (1955), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Hill, E. (1977), 'The Territory', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Kerr, M. (1971), 'The Surveyors: The Story of the Founding of Darwin', Adelaide, SA.>, <ExternalResource: Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light', Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: Stow, J. (1894), 'The Voyage of the Forlorn Hope', Melbourne, Vic.>]
See alsos [<ExternalResource: Robinson, Julie and Zagala, Maria (2007), 'A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography 1840s to 1940s', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.>, <ExternalResource: Art Gallery of South Australia>]