C. B. C.

Also known as Mr Carr (possible attribution, Initials of photographer or owner of album.)
  • Artist (Photographer)
Photographer on the voyage of HMS Pelorus 1861.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
C. B. C.
Also known as Mr Carr (possible attribution, Initials of photographer or owner of album.)
Gender
Unknown
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Residence
  • Norfolk Island
  • New Hebrides
  • Tonga
  • Fiji
  • New Zealand
  • Sydney, NSW
Active Period
  • c.1861
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

photographer(?), is identified only by these initials on the cover of an album of photographs taken during the voyage of HMS Pelorus to Fiji, Tonga, the New Hebrides, Norfolk Island, Sydney and New Zealand in 1861 (Mitchell Library). Four of the photographs are group portraits of the ex-Pitcairn Islanders recently transferred to Norfolk Island, while two were taken in Sydney, one with Pelorus at anchor in Farm Cove, the other a close-up of the ship in dry dock at Cockatoo Island. It is uncertain whether 'C.B.C.’ was the photographer or merely the owner of the album. Michael S. Guy , one of the officers on board the Pelorus , was a known photographer but there is no evidence for attributing these photographs to him. When Guy sailed the South Pacific on Curaç oa the photographer on board was identified as Mr Carr . Perhaps he was 'C.B.C.’

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Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Michael Guy
1840
Artist (Photographer)
Officer on HMS Pelorus.
(Album of photographs)
Date
1861
Four group portraits of the ex-Pitcairn Islanders recently transferred to Norfolk Island. Two taken in Sydney, one with Pelorus at anchor in Farm Cove, the other a close-up of the ship in dry dock at Cockatoo Island.
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