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Flinders [?] Explorer, 1800 / C. Wetherill
Flinders [?] Explorer, 1800 / C. Wetherill
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1800
Call Numbers
DL Pa 6
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 watercolour on ivory - diameter 7.5 cm, framed 9.5 cm
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
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Physical Access Conditions
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Issue Copy
Digitised
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Flinders [?] Explorer, 1800 / C. Wetherill
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Indexed in 'Sir William Dixson Bequest Checklist' vol.2, p.166, Item 13.
Copy Print : DL Pa 6
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room :
Digital order no:Album ID : 1319121
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed and dated 'C. Wetherill' at lower centre right. Title in pencil in Sir William Dixson's hand on paper label on back.
Attributions / Conjectures
No information about provenance could be found (1982).
In the absence of further provenance details, G.C. Ingleton, author of 'Matthew Flinders', Guilford, Surrey, Genesis...1986, expresses doubt (9/3/87) that the subject of the portrait is Matthew Flinders compared with MIN 52.
Date note
Flinders was in England from August 1800, to July 1801 (see J. Mack's 'Matthew Flinders, 1774-1814', Sydney : Nelson, 1966, pp.43-81.
Description source
A miniature artist of this surname (i.e. Wetherill) of London and Portsmouth (no Christian name is given) exhibited at the Royal Academy London, 1783 (see D. Foskett's 'A dictionary of British miniature painters', London : Faber, 1972).
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DL Pa 6
Record Identifier
9Bv7r209
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9Bv7r209
Other Identifiers
Reference code
862712
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