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Denis Downey | [stub] |
professional photographer, was a resident of Carlton, Victoria. The Roman Catholic register of the Melbourne General Cemetery records that Downey, a photographer, died from arsenical colic, aged twenty-seven, and was buried on 20 March 1870. Arsenic was just one of the hazardous chemicals then used in photography.
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Gender: | Male |
Birth: | Date:c. 1842 |
Period active: | Dates:c. 1870 - 1870 |
Death: | Date:1870-03-20 |
Burial: | Place:Roman Catholic General Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic |
Medium: | Photography |
Residence: | Dates:c. 1970 - 1870Place:Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria |
Biographer: | Staff Writer |
Source of info: | The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 |
Date written: | Date:1992 |
Reference: | Author:Harris, Helen D.Published:Information sourced from |
Summary: | A photographer based in Carlton, Victoria. He died of arsenic poisoning, just one of the hazardous chemicals used in photography at the time. |