Item 03: Louisa [i.e. Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson, ca. 1842-1846 / portrait attributed to C.E. A...
Item 03: Louisa [i.e. Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson, ca. 1842-1846 / portrait attributed to C.E. A...
Item 03: Louisa [i.e. Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson, ca. 1842-1846 / portrait attributed to C.E. Atkinson]
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1842-1846
Call Numbers
P2/371
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 22.5 x 18.2 cm. (image) ; 31.8 x 25.4 cm. (sheet) - watercolour and pencil
Other Descriptions
Level of description
File
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
The portrait is a head only side view of the sitter, facing left.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 03: Louisa [i.e. Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson, ca. 1842-1846 / portrait attributed to C.E. Atkinson]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
The work is not signed or dated.
The handwritten caption and style of presentation (the upper edge of the drawing is affixed to card) is similar to other portraits from the same donor located at P2/368-370 (though P2/370 has a different caption).
Digital order no:a928421
Signature / Inscriptions
Titled, "Louisa" in ink beneath portrait.
Attributions / Conjectures
Believed by the donor to have been painted by the sitter's elder sister, Charlotte Elizabeth, before her marriage on 22 July 1847. For further information, see notes filed at PXn 836.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Miss Janet Cosh, the granddaughter of Louisa Atkinson, Jan. 1981
Pic.Acc.4928
Administrative / Biographical history
For biographical information on Louisa Atkinson, see Dictionary of Australian Artists / by Joan Kerr. Melb, Vic : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
P2/371
Record Identifier
1bGdOakY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1bGdOakY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
446199
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