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[Elizabeth Riddell with black cat], 1946 / portrait by Dahl Collings
[Elizabeth Riddell with black cat], 1946 / portrait by Dahl Collings
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Author / Creator
Date
1946
Call Numbers
ML 1138 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 258
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Physical Description
Contents
1 painting - 46.5 x 41 cm., in wooden frame 61.5 x 56 cm. - oil on masonite
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In copyright
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Alternative Titles
Full title
[Elizabeth Riddell with black cat], 1946 / portrait by Dahl Collings
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
The portrait was painted on the balcony of the house rented in the mid-1940s by Elizabeth Riddell and her husband, 22 The Crescent, Parsley Bay, Vaucluse. The cat was called 'Celestina' and used to sit on the rocks beneath the house at the water's edge. One of the Port Jackson pilot boats is in the right middle distance. Geoffrey and Dahl Collings...
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed and dated in brushpoint lower left "Dahl 46"
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Geoffrey Collings in memory of his wife, Dahl, February 1997
Exhibited in
- Paintings from the Collection
State Library of New South Wales (2018)
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ML 1138 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 258
Record Identifier
1kVERAOn
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Reference code
135942
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