John Thomas Bigge, 1819? / portrait after Thomas Uwins
John Thomas Bigge, 1819? / portrait after Thomas Uwins
About this item
Full title
Date
1819?
Call Numbers
PM 153 , Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 49
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 glazed ceramic panel - 23.6 x 19cm
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Copyright expired – Artist died before 1955
Physical Access Conditions
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Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Bigge is seated at a writing bureau and holds a letter with the text, `Dated 16 Mar / 1819 / Papers / relating to / New / South Wales'.
He is wearing a brown jacket with black collar, a cream coloured shirt with white stock at neckline, and grey trousers.
Alternative Titles
Full title
John Thomas Bigge, 1819? / portrait after Thomas Uwins
Notes
General note
One edge seems to have been cut to size; paint can be seen on the edges, especially the cut edge. The ceramic panel is glazed front and back.
Digital order no:Album ID : 874551
Signature / Inscriptions
Unsigned and undated; dated from manuscript in painting.
Attributions / Conjectures
The portrait is very similar to a watercolour portrait of John Thomas Bigge by Thomas Uwins (P2/290) and an oil painting of Bigge by Uwins (ML 822).
All appear to be finished works. This ceramic and the oil painting more closely resemble each other. In the watercolour, the writing on the paper on the bureau, is denser; and the writing in Bigge'...
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Christopher Clarke (Antiques) Ltd
Exhibited in
- The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821
State Library of New South Wales (5 July - 10 October, 2010)
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PM 153 , Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 49
Record Identifier
93QV4mq1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/93QV4mq1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
853112
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