The publican and the daguerreotypist

In the mid-19th, century having your portrait taken was all the rage. Daguerreotype photography was a new technology.

In-conversation with Dr Donna West Brett, art historians Dr Elisa deCourcy and Dr Martyn Jolly examine JW Newland’s lively 1848 portrait of Sydney publican Edward McDonald; connecting it to the intricate local, imperial and global visual economies in which it was embedded.