Carl Ebye

Also known as:
  • Carl Iby
  • Carl Eyby
  • Artist (Photographer)
A travelling photographer who worked in New South Wales during the 1860s, Ebye produced mainly panoramic landscape views of towns in northern New South Wales.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Carl Ebye
Also known as:
  • Carl Iby
  • Carl Eyby
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Residence
  • NSW
Active Period
  • c.1862- c.1866
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

travelling photographer, worked in New South Wales during the 1860s. He visited Tinonee in 1862 and was at Armidale in 1863, where he was reported as exhibiting views of Armidale, Uralla, Inverell and Bundarra as well as an 'excellent photograph of a large group of aborigines’. A Portrait of Anne Plummer, age four (c.1862), taken at Tinonee by the 'Scott-Archer Wet Plate Process’ (ambrotype), is in the Bathurst Technical College Museum.

In 1864 Ebye revisited Uralla and Rocky River. Three years later, he was working in partnership with G. Cobley at Glen Innes. The Illustrated Sydney News of 16 June 1866 reproduced a 'panoramic view of Armidale, New South Wales from a photograph by Mr Eyby’ which at some time previously had been drawn up for publication by J.R. Roberts and engraved by Walter Mason . A similar view was published in the Illustrated Melbourne Post .

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
George Cobley
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Walter Mason
1820
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
J. R. Roberts
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Portrait of Anne Plummer, age four
Date
1862
Collections
Citations:
  • Kerr, Joan, (1982), 'The use of historic photographs by historians', (Place: Conserving Historic Photographs, P. Stanbury (ed.), Sydney, NSW)
  • Gilbert, L, (1982), An Armidale Album, (Place: Armidale, NSW)
  • Davies, Alan / Stanbury, Peter, (1985), The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900, (Place: Melbourne, Vic.)