Composite portrait of approximately 520 members of the Old Colonists Banquet group. The item was presented to Emanuel Solomon Esq. by Henry Jones, photographer, for his liberality in giving the banquet, December 1871. This composite of small photographs was arranged and published by Jones.

English photographer Henry Jones arrived in Victoria in the late 1850s, and came to South Australia in 1866.

From 1866 to 1868 Jones worked at Townsend Duryea's studio in King William Street, Adelaide. By late 1868 he had his own studio in King William Street, where he produced cartes de visite (post cards) and cabinet portraits. By the early 1870s Jones was making life-size portraits.

On 28 December 1871, the 35th anniversary of the founding of the colony of South Australia, leading Adelaide merchant Emanuel Solomon hosted a banquet in Adelaide Town Hall for 520 'old colonists', that is those wjho had arrived before 1841.

The following year Henry Jones made photographic portraits of each of the colonists. From these he created composite photographs, one of the men and another of the women who attended the banquet.

Jones, Henry, 1826-1911

Duryea, Townsend, 1823-1888

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Art Gallery of South Australia Noye Collection, Henry Jones