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Pegg Clarke
Australian Photographer, Melbourne c.1884 – 1959
A selection of available photographs
The numbering is ours...
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#01: Pegg Clarke, 1920s, Tea Party,
collection National Gallery of Australia |
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#02: Pegg Clarke, 1920s, Blossoms,
collection National Gallery of Australia |
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#03: Pegg Clarke, 1927-1928, A Fisherman of Marseille,
collection National Gallery of Australia |
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#04: Pegg Clarke, c.1920s, Garden with bird bath,
collection National Gallery of Australia |
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#05: Pegg Clarke, c.1920s, L'Artiste,
collection National Gallery of Australia |
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#06: Pegg Clarke,1907, Untitled (boats, canals Venice),
collection National Gallery of Australia |
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#07: Pegg Clarke, c.1920s, Portrait of Painter,
collection National Gallery of Australia |
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#08: Pegg Clarke, c.1920s, Two Horses,
collection National Gallery of Australia |
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#09: Pegg Clarke, c.1920s, Two women on the grass,
collection National Gallery of Australia |
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#10: Pegg Clarke, 1930s, L. Bernard Hall (As an Italian Nobleman).
Collection Castlemaine Art Museum
Lindsay Bernard Hall (1859 – 1935) was an English-born Australian artist, teacher
and the director of the National Gallery of Victoria for 43 years. |
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#11: Pegg Clarke, 1912, Portrait of Harold Herbert.
Collection Castlemaine Art Museum
Harold Brocklebank Herbert (1891–1945) was an early 20th century Australian painter and printmaker, an illustrator and cartoonist. |
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#12: Pegg Clarke, 1930s, Sunset on the Yarra (Melbourne),
collection State Library of Victoria |
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#13: Pegg Clarke, 1926 Alan Geoffrey Serle aged 4 years,
collection State Library of Victoria
Alan Geoffrey Serle (1922 – 1998), known as Geoff, was an Australian historian, who is best known for his books on the colony of Victoria and his biographies of John Monash, John Curtin and Robin Boyd. |
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#14: Pegg Clarke, c.1931, Dr Constance Ellis,
collection State Library of Victoria
Constance Ellis (1872 – 1942) was an Australian medical doctor who specialised in obstetrics, gynaecology and pathology. In 1903 she became the first woman to graduate from the University of Melbourne as a Doctor of Medicine. |
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#15: Pegg Clarke, 1920s, Staff of Moffat's drapers and haberdashers in fancy dress (Melbourne),
collection State Library of Victoria
Robertson & Moffat was a prominent Melbourne drapery and department store established during the 1850s gold rush by William Robertson and William Turner Moffat. Located on Bourke Street, the firm grew from a drapery into a significant retailer selling clothing, millinery, and furniture, eventually becoming Robertson & Moffat Proprietary Ltd. |
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#16: Pegg Clarke, 1920s, Jessie Traill (Artist)
collection State Library of Victoria
Jessie Constance Alicia Traill (1881 – 1967) was an Australian printmaker. Traill worked in England and France in the period immediately preceding World War I. During the war she served in hospitals with the Voluntary Aid Detachment. Traill is best known for a series of prints created in the early 1930s depicting the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. |
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#17: Pegg Clarke, 1930s, Bland Holt and two women (Theatre producer, Melbourne),
collection State Library of Victoria |
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#18: Pegg Clarke, 1930s, Bland Holt (Theatre producer, Melbourne),
collection State Library of Victoria |
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#19: Pegg Clarke, First Melbourne Public Library, Sir Redmond Barry's old home,
collection State Library of Victoria
Before the official opening of the Melbourne Public Library (now State Library Victoria) in 1856, Sir Redmond Barry’s residence was often considered the city's first public library. Barry allowed the public to visit his home, a cottage near Bourke Street West, behind Goldsbrough, Mort & Co, to read his personal collection, acting as a library for early Melbourne pioneers. |
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#20: Pegg Clarke, 1930s Bluehayes, South Yarra (Melbourne),
collection State Library of Victoria |
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#21: Pegg Clarke, 1930s Bluehayes prior to the stucco facing being applied, South Yarra (Melbourne),
collection State Library of Victoria |
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#22: Pegg Clarke, Rear view of two storey brick house. (Melbourne),
collection State Library of Victoria |
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#23: Pegg Clarke, 1930s Two storey brick house with separate garage entrance (Melbourne),
collection State Library of Victoria |
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#24: Pegg Clarke, 1930s, Two storey maisonettes 646 Toorak Road,Toorak (Melbourne),
collection State Library of Victoria |
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#25: Pegg Clarke, c.1930s Unidentified Interior (Melbourne),
collection State Library of Victoria |
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#26: Pegg Clarke, c.1930s Unidentified Interior (Melbourne),
collection State Library of Victoria
Is that the photographer reflected in the mirror? see below |
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| #26a: detail from previous photo. |
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#27: Pegg Clarke, 1930s, wattle blossom time,
collection State Library of Victoria |
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#28: Pegg Clarke, c.1926s, La Grande Rue, St Paul
collection Art Gallery of New South Wales |
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#29: Pegg Clarke, golden sunlight
collection unknown |
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#30: Pegg Clarke, An English Lane
private collection |
Pegg Clarke produced a series of greeting cards using her photographs.
In this first one below, we have copied the cover,
then
the whole card opened and
then the photograph by itself.
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#31: Pegg Clarke, Greeting Card Cover
private collection |
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#31a: Pegg Clarke, Greeting Card trees
private collection |
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#31b: Pegg Clarke, Greeting Card trees
private collection |
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#32: Pegg Clarke, Greeting Card, bullock wagon
private collection |
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#33: Pegg Clarke, Greeting Card trees
private collection |
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#34: Pegg Clarke, 1920s, Magic Morning, Les Martigues
Sold at Auction: Gibson's, Melbourne 2022 |
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#35: Pegg Clarke, 1926-1927, Monuments - Archibald - Hyde Park Sydney 1926-1927;
titled on Adam Galleries exhibition label verso, Sold at Auction: Leonard Joel, Melbourne 2012 |
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#36: Pegg Clarke, Autumn in the Bush
Sold at Auction: Leonard Jopel, Melbourne 2012 |
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#37: Pegg Clarke, 1940s, The Photographer, Norman Deck
Sold at Auction: Shapiro Auctioneers, Sydney 2012 |
Other titles listed as for sale at previous Leonard Joel Auctions, Melbourne:
Passers-by, The Sunny Side, Old House, Venice, The Sign Post, Mentone, The Fence,
The London Street, A Bruges Canal, Grammar Church, The Pioneers Cottage c1930,
The Swiss Canal, The Sunny Side.
Below, the 1932 catalogue for exhibition sale of 104 Pegg Clarke photographs.
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