Photograph

Title: Quong Tart seated in mandarin robes
Description: Qunog Tart wears some feathers in his hat, probably peacock (hua yu) or perhaps crow (lan yu) feathers. He also wears a set of mandarin chains and possibly a mandarin button on his hat.
Date: c. 11 July 1894 - c. 29 January 1897
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Interpretive description: In 1894 Quong Tart was granted the rank of Blue Button, fourth rank - with the extra degree of the Peacock's Feather, which was worn on the hat [Travers p.141]. It is possible that the photograph published in Tart 1911 was based on an original photograph held by the Tart family and the original or a copy was then given to the Chinese Australian Herald for publication in 1897.

Versions

Type
Print

Form
Black and white photograph.

Creator
Museum of Chinese Australian History

Control
P00536 QT22

Source
Quong Tart collection; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details
Type
Negative

Form
4x5 inch black and white negative copied from an original (probably edition of Margaret Tart's biography of Quong Tart)

Control
N45-044

Source
Negative collection (4x5 inch), N45; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details
Type
Published photograph

Form
Caption (online version): 'Quong Tart - Mandarine [sic]'

Control
following p.20

Source
Tart, Margaret, The Life of Quong Tart: Or how a Foreigner Succeeded in a British Community, W. M. Maclardy, Sydney, 1911, http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/fed0048. Details
Title
Mr Quong Tart, Mandarin of the Empire of China and Vice-President of the League of N.S.W. Wheelmen

Type
Published photograph

Form
This is a fuller version of this portrait than the Museum of Chinese Australian History copy. More of the floor and screen can be seen. Handwritten at the bottom of the picture is: 'Daily Tel' Eng Col.'.

Control
Box 5X, Supplement to the New South Wales 'Cyclist', March 10, 1898

Source
Quong Tart and family papers (1831-1940), ML MSS 5094; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library. Details
Title
Quong Tart seated in his mandarin dress

Type
Print (front)

Form
photocopy

Control
P00851

Source
Quong Tart collection; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

Copied from Yong, C.F., New Gold Mountain
Title
Mr Quong Tart in his mandarin dress

Type
Published photograph

Source
'Mr Quong Tart in his mandarin dress [photograph]', Chinese Australian Herald, Supplement, 29 January 1897. Details
Type
Print (back)

Source
Quong Tart collection; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details
Title
Portrait of Quong Tart in Mandarin robes and peacock feather hat

Date
1894

Type
Published photograph

Form
Gelatin silver photograph, 25.5 x 18.0. Handwritten caption: 'Yours sincerely Quong Tart July 11th 94'

Creator
Hubert Newman, J., Sydney

Source
Teffer, Nicola, No Ordinary Man: Sydney's Quong Tart, citizen, merchant & philanthropist, Quong Tart Centenary Commemoration Committee and Newcontemporaries gallery, Sydney, 2004. Details

Private collection
Title
An Australian Chinese Mandarin, Mr Quong Tart

Date
c. 23 February 1895

Type
Published photograph

Form
Includes an accompanying article that discusses the various mandarin ranks and symbols of office. Note that is included on the same page as the Mayor of Sydney (wearing official robes), his wife and Rudolf, Count Festetics de Tolna (wearing a military uniform).

Control
p.28

Source
'Chinese mandarins [with photograph]', Australian Town and Country Journal, 23 February 1895, p. 28. Details
Title
Mr. Quong Tart (1897)

Description
Quong Tart wearing mandarin robes seated on a cane chair.

Date
c. 1897

Type
Published photograph

Form
Published photograph with decorative boarder and extensive accompanying Chinese text. English caption under photograph reads: 'Mr. Quong Tart in his mandarin dress'. The Chinese article provides a brief biography of Quong Tart the 5th rank he was awarded by the Emperor as a result of his work with the Chinese Commissioners during their visit in 1887 [rough translation courtesy Kuo Mei-fen].

Control
p.23

Source
Yong, C.F., New Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Australia 1901-1920, Raphael Arts, South Australia, 1977. Details

Chinese Australian Herald, 29 January 1897