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The Cruise of HMS Bacchante 1879-1882: Reid Town Mission Station, South Australia 1881
Albumen print | 15.7 x 24.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2580773

The Cruise of HMS Bacchante 1879-1882: Reid Town Mission Station, South Australia 1881
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Photograph of a cluster of buildings on an open plain comprising a chapel in the centre and a missionaries' house in the centre right. Small cottages are grouped in a rough circular fashion. In the foreground stands a small fence next to which are Indigenous Australian villagers with a cart pulled by six oxen.
Reid is now a suburb of the city of Adelaide that was visited by Prince Albert Victor and Prince George in South Australia.
This is a photograph from one of the nine albums compiled following Prince Albert Victor (1864-92) and Prince George of Wales' (1865-1936) world tour aboard HMS Bacchante from 1879 to 1882. The photographs were collected by their chaperon and tutor, John Neale Dalton.
The majority of the images in these albums are topographical views and architectural studies, loosely arranged according to the group’s itinerary. They include photographs of artefacts, local people and public figures, as well as portraits of the princes taken during the tour. The attempt to recreate the experience of a journey through such an assortment of images is common to many amateur travelling albums of this period. In 1886, some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced as engravings in the published accounts of the voyage, The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882.Provenance
Album compiled by the Reverend J N Dalton (1839-1931) and presented to King George V
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Medium and techniques
Albumen print
Measurements
15.7 x 24.2 cm (image)
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Alternative title(s)
Reid Town Mission Station. [The Cruise of H.M.S. Bacchante 1879-1882. Volume IV, Australia, Fiji].