travelling photographer, had a studio at 645 George Street, Sydney, opposite the Haymarket, in 1863. By December he had travelled down to Queanbeyan and was taking portrait photographs at the Harp Inn, Macquoid Street. He then toured southern NSW, including Yass. From his next Sydney studio, 675 George Street, Nicol advertised in the Illawarra Mercury on 14 April 1865 that he was about to come to Wollongong for several days 'to execute likenesses in every known style of the art’, adding that he would bring with him 'such instruments…as will enable him to produce Cards de Visits [sic] equal to best in Sydney’. This was apparently the start of another southern tour. He revisited Yass and Queanbeyan later that year as well as going to the south-west slopes. He was also recorded at Boorowa in 1865. A photograph of John Bede, Anthony Francis and Vincent Ignatius, the three sons of Judge Blake of Yass, survives from one of these tours. He continued to visit rural NSW from his Sydney base but in 1867 moved north to the New England area: Armidale, Inverell, Glen Innes and Tenterfield were on his itinerary. Continuing on to Queensland, he was taking photographs at Warwick, Dalby and Toowoomba in 1868.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
