The Gold Commissioner's station at Timbarra, New South Wales, ca. 1870 / Mrs Louisa Green-Emmott
The Gold Commissioner's station at Timbarra, New South Wales, ca. 1870 / Mrs Louisa Green-Emmott
The Gold Commissioner's station at Timbarra, New South Wales, ca. 1870 / Mrs Louisa Green-Emmott
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Date
ca. 1870
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ML 1262 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, North Wall, no. 135
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Physical Description
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1 painting - visible image 75.2 x 110.6 cm., in frame 93.5 x 129 cm. - oil on canvas
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Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Depicts the rudimentary official compound and settlement at the Timbarra goldfield. The Commissioner's house is probably the building in the centre foreground with gardens around. The troopers with the packhorse in the view may be the gold escort leaving the settlement. In 1866 the subject of the gold escort between Tenterfield and the Clarence, an...
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The Gold Commissioner's station at Timbarra, New South Wales, ca. 1870 / Mrs Louisa Green-Emmott
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Object History
Provenance by descent in the family of the artist; first offered for sale in 1990 when it is last recorded as trading, via Sotheby’s Australia; offered again by Christie’s in 1993, unsold. The Museum of Australia has exhibited the painting, on loan from Hordern House.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Hordern House, March 2011 catalogue, no. 13
Exhibited in
- Paintings from the Collection
State Library of New South Wales (2018)
Administrative / Biographical history
Louisa Green-Emmott, amateur painter, was also known as Louisa Mary Green or Louisa Mary Sheridan. Louisa Sheridan McPherson married George Green in 1840. They lived at Emmott Hall, Colne, Lancashire, the Green ancestral home. In 1851 the family added Emmott to their surname.
The family left England for Australia, supposedly because of debt...
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ML 1262 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, North Wall, no. 135
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nZNvgkjn
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931617
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