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.
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Name
Robert Dalzell Ward
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Other Occupation
  • surgeon (ANZSIC code: 8512)
Birth date
1819
Death date
2 May 1902
Death place
North Sydney, NSW
Burial place
St Thomas's Cemetery, New South Wales
Active Period
  • 1856 - 1860
Arrival
  • 9 April 1852 (Sydney, NSW, vessel; 'David M'Ivor')
Residence
  • Dalzell, West Street, North Sydney, New South Wales
  • c.1852- Berry Street, North Shore (North Sydney), Sydney, New South Wales
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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References [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Marriage Records : V1854927 41B/1854'.>, <ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records : 6874/1902'.>, <ExternalResource: Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900', Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Cato, J. (1955), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia', Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Morgan, C. (1988), 'Life and Death on the North Side', North Sydney, New South Wales.>, <ExternalResource: (20 May 1902), Australasian Medical Gazette.>, <ExternalResource: Rumsey, H.J., 'North Shore in 1860: Photographs taken by Dr R.D. Ward', Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced by Morgan, Chris.>] [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Marriage Records : V1854927 41B/1854'.>, <ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records : 6874/1902'.>]