Dr Elisa deCourcy and Dr Martyn Jolly, with Dr Donna West Brett
Thursday 11 March, 6.30pm
![[Portrait of Edward TYW McDonald,] 1848. Photographer: JW Newland. Macleay Collections: SC1977.40.6](https://i0.wp.com/i2.cmail20.com/ei/t/FC/12E/849/150030/csfinal/MuseumFB-61a2b3a9d5dded08.png)
In the mid-19th century, daguerreotype portraiture was taking the world by storm. Join historians Dr Elisa deCourcy and Dr Martyn Jolly, in conversation with Dr Donna West Brett, for a discussion on this portrait of Sydney publican Edward McDonald.
Edward McDonald, the publican of the Forth & Clyde hotel at The Rocks, obviously had a strong personality. It still twinkles through his daguerreotype portrait now in the collection of the Chau Chak Wing Museum and featured in The Business of Photography: the 19th century studio in NSW. Our speakers will connect this palm-sized image, captured by JW Newland in 1848, to the intricate local, imperial and global visual economies in which it was embedded.
Thursday 11 March, 6.30pm
Nelson Meers Foundation Auditorium, Chau Chak Wing Museum
A Zoom link will be provided to those attending online.
Martyn Jolly 
Will you perhaps record this? I’d love to hear it, but this is a bit too late our time for me to participate!
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