Prisoner John FUNT

The NLA carte-de-visite
This duplicate of Thomas Nevin's original photograph of prisoner John Funt, taken on discharge in 1875, was deposited at the National Library of Australia in the 1960s. Another cdv of John Funt is held at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania.

NLA Catalogue (incorrect information)
PIC P1029/15 LOC Album 935/nla.obj-142916515
John Funt, per Hydrabad 3, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]

Carte-de-visite of John Funt numbered "97" on recto
QVMAG Ref: QVM: 1985:P:104
Photographer: T. J. Nevin

A paper copy of the QVMAG cdv is held at the Archives Office Tasmania
Webshot of page at the Archives Office of Tasmania

Webshot of page at the Archives Office of Tasmania

The QVMAG prints
This is an original print from Thomas J. Nevin's original glass negative taken in 1875. It was one of forty original prints from his negatives which were collated onto three panels and displayed for sale in John Watt Beattie's catalogue, 1916.

Prisoner John Funt, bottom row, fourth from left
Forty prints of 1870s Tasmania prisoners in three panels
Original prints of negatives by T. J. Nevin 1870s
Reprints by J. W. Beattie ca. 1915
QVMAG Collection: Ref : 1983_p_0163-0176

[Above]" Black and white print from T. J. Nevin's original negative of John Funt 1875 reproduced minus scratches and cracks in the 1980s at the QVMAG.

POLICE RECORDS John Funt

John Funt was photographed by T. J. Nevin on discharge from the Hobart Town Gaol on 3 February, 1875. Funt was sentenced to 10 years for robbery on 17 October 1867. On discharge in 1875 he was 60 yrs old.

TRANSPORTATION RECORDS
At the Archives Office Tasmania -

Funt, John
Record Type:Convicts
Departure date:13 Sep 1850
Departure port:Queenstown
Ship:Hyderabad (3)
Voyage number:332
Index number:25214
Record ID:NAME_INDEXES:1393943

TAHO prisoner John Funt LINK

BIOGRAPHY: Professional photographer Thomas James Nevin snr (1842-1923) produced large numbers of stereographs and cartes-de-visite within his commercial practice, and prisoner identification photographs on government contract. His career spanned nearly three decades, from the early 1860s to the late 1880s. He was one of the first photographers to work with the police in Australia, along with Charles Nettleton (Victoria) and Frazer Crawford (South Australia). His Tasmanian prisoner mugshots are among the earliest to survive in public collections, viz. the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston; the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; the Tasmanian Heritage and Archives Office, Hobart; the Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasman Peninsula; the National Library of Australia, Canberra; and the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney. Thomas J. Nevin's stereographs and portraits are held in public and private collections in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, France and Switzerland.

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THE MUGSHOTS:Thomas Nevin's extant prisoner identification prints and cartes-de-visite in oval mounts - "mugshots" - were taken between 1871 and 1888. The public collections consists of 350+ estrays from more than 2000 photographs taken of prisoners in Tasmania by Thomas Nevin and his brother Constable John Nevin. The National Library of Australia currently holds 87 photographs, the State Library of NSW holds 13 photographs, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery holds 112 photographs, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery holds more than 50, and the Archives Office of Tasmania holds 10 originals and 100 or so paper copies of the QVMAG collections. A dozen or so are held in Private Collections.

DISCLAIMER: We have not voluntarily contributed to any publication which supports the misattribution of Nevin’s prisoner/convict photographs (300+ extant) to the non-photographer A.H. Boyd, nor do we condone any attempts by public institutions or private individuals to co-opt the work on these Nevin weblogs to apply the misattribution.

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This weblog pays respect to the ancestors and elders past, present, and emerging of the first Australian peoples and acknowledges their continued connection to land, sea and culture as the traditional custodians of this country.

Irish-born Thomas J. Nevin would have been keenly aware that the residence and photographic studio he occupied at No's 138-140 Elizabeth St. Hobart in the 1870s were built on nipaluna, the traditional lands of the palawa people. It is no small irony that today, the very same property, which is renumbered as No. 198 Elizabeth St. Hobart and is occupied by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, has returned to its traditional owners.

Looking east from the corner of Patrick St., the Royal Standard Hotel, 142 Elizabeth St. then T. J. Nevin’s studio and residence, 140-138 Elizabeth St. Hobart, 1870s

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