Biographers Professor Joan Kerr and G. T. Stilwell (1992)
Curator John McPhee (ABC TV 2009) of Nevin exhibition 1977
Thomas Nevin was known by a number of variations of his name, and several of these are now used in public catalogues and holdings. His signature on official documents and name on his studio stamps include: Thomas Nevin, Thomas Nevin Senior, Thomas J. Nevin, Thos Nevin, T. Nevin, T. Nevin late A. Bock, T. J. Nevin, Nevin & Smith, and Clifford & Nevin.
Career Biographica
- Partnerships and Studios
With Alfred Bock at The City Photographic Establishment
Alfred Bock and Thomas Nevin at Port Arthur
Alfred Bock’s stock in trade
Nevin's portraits of children gifted to the Duke 1868
Apprentices: The Good, The Bad and The Careless
The Odd Fellows' Hall Photograph 1871
Thomas J. Nevin and H.H. Baily at the Regatta 1872
Samuel Clifford and dry plate photography
Clifford and Nevin, Hobart Town: tinted cartes
Samuel Page's Royal Coach mail
On the road with Samuel Clifford and Thomas Nevin 1874
The Colonists' Trip to Adventure Bay 1872
The Excelsior Coal Mine at New Town 1874
T. J. Nevin's Christmas cards 1874
Thomas Nevin and the Loyal United Brothers Lodge
A first-class faithful Likeness February 1873
The firm of Nevin & Smith
Rare Nevin and Smith portrait
Another rare Nevin & Smith stamp 1868
Nevin and Smith's stock photography
Studio decor: table with griffin-shaped legs
Nevin's Trademarks copyrighted for 14 years
Studio decor: the pauper on Thos Nevin’s carpet and Brother Payne
Hugh Munro Hull and the wall-hanging
The lion and unicorn studio stamp
Signatures and handwriting
Kangaroo Valley and the New Town Studio
Trademarks copyrighted for 14 years
- The Hobart Town Hall years 1876-1880
Chiniquy rioters injuring the Town Hall 1879
The Chiniquy Riots 1879
Watering the Town Hall trees too infra dig for the caretaker
A Zoological Curiosity at the Town Hall 1877
An Ornithological Disaster: Thomas Nevin's emu 1878
Thomas Nevin arrested for acting in concert with the “GHOST”
Appearing late at night as a ghost
Thomas Nevin's GHOST makes news in Maitland NSW
Nevin setting the police at defiance 1881
Tasmanian Newspapers The Mercury and Stilwell Index
- Public Collections
Thomas Nevin's stereography
Fraudulent pretensions: the Boyd misattribution at SLNSW
Red and violet: the impact of Brewster stereoscopy
Stereographs by Clifford & Nevin at 'Narryna'
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery databases
Six of Nevin’s salt paper stereos at TMAG
Nevin and Smith stereo of Elizabeth St studio
T. Nevin and Samuel Clifford identical views
Rocking Stone party, Mt Wellington
At the Salmon Ponds and Plenty
Ferns, convicts and Charles Darwin
Hobart Town from Lime Kiln Hill
At Lady Franklin’s Museum, Ancanthe
The New Town studio stamp & stereograph
- Private Collections Nevin's big tabletop stereograph viewer
- Vignettes of convicts
John Sullivan, cook and thief 1875
A missing or unidentified mugshot: Alfred Harrington
Habitual offender Edward Wallace at Hobart Gaol
Thomas Francis was photographed by T.J. NEVIN on 6th February 1874
The Supreme Court mugshots taken by T.J. Nevin from 1871 onwards
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Holdings
From Thomas Bock to Thomas Nevin: Supreme Court prisoner portraits
Lyn Hagan: art from Nevin's 'Tazmanian' convicts
Prisoner portraits taken before release: examples by Nettleton and Nevin
T.J. Nevin's prisoner mugshots, Mitchell Library NSW
19th century prison photography: Tasmania 1872
Tricks of the prison limner and sitter 1866
Thomas Nevin 1886: assistant bailiff to Inspector Dorsett
Good reading for The Kid 1921 - police gazettes
The case of Francis Sheahan
The first Rogues' Galleries
Convict cartes by Thomas Nevin at the new National Portrait Gallery
Two significant prisoner cartes by T. J. Nevin
Thomas Nevin's hand-coloured convict photographs
About those photographic glasses 1873 ...
Nettleton and Nevin patents registration
Nevin's convict portraits at the National Library of Australia
The lion and unicorn studio stamp
Two histories, one execution
Nevin's photos of prisoners Sutherland and Stock with death warrant
Nevin's mugshots: the transitional pose and frame
Two histories, two inscriptions
Convict Wm Meaghers, original by Nevin 1874
Early convict carte, Owens with headrest, 1873
Convicts Blore and Harrison at the TMAG
Rare document with prisoner carte at the PCHS
Port Arthur convict with headrest
From glass negative to printed carte
Bewley Tuck can speak for himself
More on the versos of some convict cartes ...
Recto & verso of a “Port Arthur convict” carte
Aliases, Copies, and Misattribution
Convict carte No. 1: George White aka Nutt
Well-groomed prisoners Morris and Evans
The case of Leonard Hand
Anthony Trollope’s Port Arthur interviewee
Archives Office of Tasmania records of Nevin’s convict portraits
Execution of Sutherland and Ogden
National Library of Australia’s holdings of Nevin’s convict portraits
NLA’s ‘native’ convict portrait with no attribution
George Leathley, No. 226
The trial of Joshua Anson
Laterality: poses in Nevin's portraits
- Prison sites and views
Hobart Gaol stereos 1860s
The Journey from Hobart to Port Arthur 1873-4
Melville Street from the Hobart Gaol 140 years ago
Superintendent Richard Propsting & the Police Office, Port Arthur
- Governors and government
James Boyd, Commandant, Port Arthur 1860s
Working with police and prisoners
Nepotism, corruption and Port Arthur 1873
Improprieties: A.H. Boyd & the Parasitic Attribution
W.R. Giblin, Judge, Attorney-General and Premier
Younger brother Jack Nevin salaried at H.M. Gaol
Brothers Thomas & Jack Nevin with W.R. Giblin
Sir Francis Smith and the photographer
Thos Jas Nevin senior and John Perkins junior
Authorship of Tasmanian Premiers cartes 1870s
- Exhibitions
The Wellington Park Exhibition 1868
John McPhee on Nevin in 1977 and 2007 at the QVMAG
Convict cartes by Thomas Nevin at the new National Portrait Gallery
"In a New Light": NLA exhibition with Boyd misattribution
The Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery Convicts 1977
G. T. Stilwell’s letter to Mrs Shelverton
Heads of the People NPG 2000
Mirror with a Memory National Portrait Gallery 2000
Courtesy of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Melville Street from the Hobart Gaol 140 years ago
- Publications
Edwin Barnard: it takes one to know one
Thomas Francis was photographed by T.J. NEVIN on 6th February 1874
Christmas 1874: Thomas Nevin's "Photographic Feat"
Poster boys 1870s
Aliases, Copies and Misattribution
Vernacular or art? Nevin at the threshold in 1874
Poster of Thomas Nevin's convict portraits 1870s at PCHS
Mismatched records: the Bulletin 1978
The Bulletin, May 16, 1978
Two histories, one execution: Job Smith
Fraudulent pretensions: the Boyd misattribution at SLNSW
Robert Hughes, ‘The Fatal Shore’ 1987
Margaret Glover and the fabrication of photohistory
About those photographic glasses 1873 ...
Babette Smith on Australia's Birthstain
A Question of Stupidity & the NLA
Professor Joan Kerr (DAA ed. 1992)
Prison photographers Nevin, Nettleton & Crawford
‘Tasmanian Photographers 1840-1940: A Directory’ (TMAG 1995)
Thomas Nevin and H.H. Baily at the Regatta 1872
Two histories, two inscriptions (TMAG 1995)
‘The Australian People’, J. Jupp (ed) 2001
Anne-Marie Willis & Richard Neville on the A.H. Boyd misattribution
The QVMAG, Chris Long and the A.H. Boyd misattribution
Helen Ennis’ NLA publication ‘Intersections’ 2004
Isobel Crombie and Helen Ennis: how misattribution can persist
Laterality: Helen Ennis & the poses in Nevin's portraits
The first Rogues' Galleries: an overview
The A.H. Boyd misattribution at DAAO
The PARKHURST prisoners & anthropometry
- John Watt Beattie studios, museum & reprints
W. Radcliffe’s The Old Curiosity Shop
Beattie’s Port Arthur Museum Catalogue 1916
Beattie and Searle reprints of convict portraits
- Liam Peters Collection
Preview: The Liam Peters Collection
- Marcel Safier Collection
Woman with an umbrella
- G. C. Harrisson Collection
Teenager with tinted sprig
Three of Nevin’s studio stamps
The lion and unicorn stamp
Woman at table: Nevin’s studio decor and tinting
- John and Robyn McCullagh Collection
Man with stereoscope
Hand-tinted carte by ‘Clifford & Nevin, Hobart Town’
- The Lucy Batchelor Collection
Portraits by T.J. Nevin in The Lucy Batchelor Collection
Nevin's big tabletop stereograph viewer with Freemason
T. J. Nevin's Christmas cards 1874
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