LANE, CYRIL GRANT (1875-1948)

“Tuggerah Lakes, NSW” (c.1922)
original silver gelatin photograph
20 x 30cm
signed lower right (beneath mount)
*private collection, Sydney
 
Cyril Grant Lane was a respected British photographer, naturalist, lecturer, and author. A member of the British Empire Naturalist Association, he first came to Australia in the 1890s, travelling extensively and photographed bush landscapes and native animals, birds and reptiles. After returning to England he published a book 'Creature-life in Australian wilds' (1912) and 'Adventures in the big bush: in the haunts of the Aboriginal' (1928).This impressive, original, rare albumen photograph was produced as Lane travelled North from Sydney Harbour, past the Central Coast en route to Queensland.