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Kittie Couly, singing (?) student - portrait, 1906 / W.Latimer, Fitzroy

Kittie Couly, singing (?) student - portrait, 1906 / W.Latimer, Fitzroy

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Kittie Couly, singing (?) student - portrait, 1906 / W.Latimer, Fitzroy

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Full title

Kittie Couly, singing (?) student - portrait, 1906 / W.Latimer, Fitzroy

Author / Creator

Date

1906

Call Numbers

P1/385

Record Identifier

93QVA0v1

Reference Code

447233
Physical Description

Contents

Photographs - image 15.9 x 7.5 cm. , mount 25.1 x 17.1 cm. - 1 panel photoprint

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Fonds

Access and use

Copying Conditions

Out of copyright : created before 1955<br>

Issue Copy

Digitised

More information

Scope and Contents

Contents

Portrait of a woman in a white dress, standing with a cane chair against a painted studio backcloth of a marble wall and column

Alternative Titles

Full title

Kittie Couly, singing (?) student - portrait, 1906 / W.Latimer, Fitzroy

Authors, Artists and Contributors

Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Transferred from P1/Couly, Kittie (BM), January 2010

Digital order no:a4260085

Signature / Inscriptions

"Yours sincerely / Kittie Couly" -- subject's signature in ink on the lower right hand corner of the photograph
"To dear Madame from / her affectionate pupil Kittie. / With the compliments of the Season Xmas 1906" -- in the subject's hand in ink on the lower edge of the mount
"W.Latimer / Fitzroy" -- photographer's signature in white ink, lo...

Attributions / Conjectures

[Kittie Couly, (previously catalogued as "Couley"), was possibly a student at the Melba Conservatorium of Music in Richmond, Melbourne. Unfortunately she does not say whom the "Madame" she is addressing is. Melba herself taught there from 1915 onwards but called in on her visits to Australia before then. -- Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music we...

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

P1/385

Record Identifier

93QVA0v1

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/93QVA0v1

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Reference code

447233

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