Summary
Cabinet card commemorating the death of Emma Matilda Hammet on 10 February 1894. Card made by the Art Engraving Company, 8 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Victoria.
This cabinet card is from a photograph album containing one cabinet card, six cabinet photographs, ninety one carte de visite photographs and two tintype photographs. The photographs are almost all studio portraits of men, women and children taken in various photographic studios in Ballarat, Melbourne, Hobart, Wagga Wagga, Cardiff and London between 1850 and 1900.
Physical Description
Cabinet card featuring gold text on black card.
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (Powerhouse Museum), 04 Jun 1990
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Person Commemorated
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Maker
Art Engraving Company, 8 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1894
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Inscriptions
Printed in gold ink on card: 'The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken / away : Blessed be the name of the Lord.' / JOB i. 21. / In Loving Remembrance / of / Emma Matilda Hammet / Beloved Daughter of Mrs. Hannah E. Hammet / Died February 10, 1894 / A PRECIOUS one from us is gone, / A voice we loved is stilled ; / A place is vacant in our home / That never can be filled. / God in His wisdom has recalled / The boon His love had given, / and though the body lingers here, / The soul is safe in Heaven. / The Art Engraving Company, 8 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. / COPYRIGHT.'
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Classification
Celebrations & traditions, Death & mourning, Ceremonial ephemera
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Overall Dimensions
107 mm (Width), 165 mm (Height)
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