Sarah Cobcroft, 1856 / oil portrait by Joseph Backler
Sarah Cobcroft, 1856 / oil portrait by Joseph Backler
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Author / Creator
Date
1856
Call Numbers
ML 169 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, East Wall, no. 295
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Physical Description
Contents
1 painting - 91.2 x 71.1 cm - oil
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Digitised
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Sarah Cobcroft, 1856 / oil portrait by Joseph Backler
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Colour transparency digitised 2000
Digital order no:a928715
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed at lower right: J. Backler 1856
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Lady Colin Davidson, a great-great grandaughter of Cobcroft's, Nov 1962
Exhibited in
- Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait.
- The Picture Gallery 2: Backler & friends - aspects of portraiture in colonial Sydney
- ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary
- Paintings from the Collection
State Library of New South Wales (25 May - 12 October, 1992)
State Library of New South Wales (November, 1999 - July, 2000)
State Library of New South Wales (March, 2010 - June, 2010)
State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
Administrative / Biographical history
Sarah Smith followed her convict partner, John Cobcroft to Australia by taking up the governments offer of free passage. John arrived in the Second Fleet on 27 June 1790 on board the Scarborough, and Sarah on the Neptune, arriving on the 28 June.
They had ten children, and married in 1842, when John was 86 and Sarah 70. Throughout her life,...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ML 169 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, East Wall, no. 295
Record Identifier
9WZMNDaY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9WZMNDaY
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Reference code
403992
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