Dr James Mitchell, 1854 / portrait by Marshall Claxton
Dr James Mitchell, 1854 / portrait by Marshall Claxton
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1854
Call Numbers
ML 7 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, South Wall, no. 205
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 painting - 140 x 112 cm. (image, inside frame) ; 186 x 158 cm. (frame) - oil in gilt frame
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
Issue Copy
Digitised
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Dr James Mitchell, 1854 / portrait by Marshall Claxton
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
The elaborate gesso and gilt frame was made by in Sydney by Edwin Baldwin and commended by the New South Wales Commissioners of Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1855 -- Reference Catalogue of the ... Products of N.S.W. ... in the Australian Museum ... 1854, Sydney, pp. 79, 81, 87 (located at DSM Q606/N)
The painting is also visible in photo...
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed and dated at lower left.
Titled from plaque at centre of lower edge of frame.
Object History
Portrait on loan to the Mitchell Library from E. R. H. Merewether, March 1944
It appears as no. 241 on the 'List of paintings etc. deposited in room of Art Gallery' which were received by the Art Gallery October 1907 (Ref. MLMSS 231)
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by the E. C. Merewether Estate Trustees, July 1965
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ML 7 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, South Wall, no. 205
Record Identifier
YzOgPQK9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YzOgPQK9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
446347
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