Millicent Preston-Stanley, Mrs Crawford Vaughan, 1950 / Mary Edwards
Millicent Preston-Stanley, Mrs Crawford Vaughan, 1950 / Mary Edwards
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Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1950
Call Numbers
DG 396 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 252
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Physical Description
Contents
1 painting - 39 x 28 in. inside frame, in gilt wooden frame 50 x 41 in. - oil on canvas
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Copyright status : In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years
Rights and Restrictions Information : No reproduction without prior written approval of copyright holder
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Millicent Preston-Stanley, Mrs Crawford Vaughan, 1950 / Mary Edwards
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
The portrait was hung in the Archibald Prize in 1950.
Reference:
Faces of Australia : image, reality and the portrait / Richard Neville. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1992.
Copy print DG 396
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed and dated in lower left hand corner 'Mary Edwards 1950'.
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
Title from back of canvas
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Feminist Club, Sydney, 1968
Exhibited in
Administrative / Biographical history
The subject, Millicent Preston-Stanley (1883-1955), was a politician and feminist. She was born on 9 September 1883 in Sydney, the eldest child of Augustine Gregory Stanley, a Sydney-born grocer, and his wife Fanny Helen (nee Preston).
In 1925 Preston-Stanley became the first female member of the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly, representing th...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DG 396 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 252
Record Identifier
9NaAN5KY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9NaAN5KY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
839923
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