Image (DETAIL) J. W. Newland, young woman with mourning bracelet, oriental fan, Chinese nodding head figure and martaban jar, Calcutta, c1852. Daguerreotype. Bradford, The National Science and Media Museum, UK.
Congratulations to Dr Elisa deCourcy, Research Fellow in the School of Art & Design, who has a received a publication subsidy from the Australian Academy of the Humanities for Empire, Early Photography and Spectacle: The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J.W. Newland. The book, co-authored with Honorary Associate Professor Martyn Jolly, will be out with Bloomsbury Academic next year.
https://www.humanities.org.au/2019/06/19/announcing-the-2019-publication-subsidy-scheme-recipients/
Image: J. W. Newland, young woman with mourning bracelet, oriental fan, Chinese nodding head figure and martaban jar, Calcutta, c1852. Daguerreotype. Bradford, The National Science and Media Museum, UK.