This black and white reproduction from a glass plate negative depicts a studio portrait of a young woman dressed as Boadecia or Mother England. She wears tights, a short tunic, helmet, shield and staff and poses in front of a painted backdrop of a rowing boat.
This image comes from the unusual Phillips photographic collection and has just been added to the Commons on Flickr . This brings the total number of images from this collection in Flickr to 160. You can see them in this set .
Raymond Phillips, a rotograver who was responsible for the Australian Women’s Weekly cover, donated this collection. His father, Arthur Phillips, was a gold and silver merchant and was possibly the photographer of the glass plate negatives. In 1920, the family moved from Willoughby to Latimer Road, Bellevue Hill. Raymond Phillips remained in the house after his parents’ death. This amazing and unusual collection of glass plate negatives was found in a deal box in the garage.
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