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88898
  • Title
    [Wax portrait medallion of an unidentified man]
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PM 11
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1837-1865 (dated from her working dates in Australia)
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    88898
  • Physical Description
    Objects - slate is set into circular, turned timber frame, with a gold slip ; medallion is 7.5 cm (sight) high : frame is 20.5 cm diameter - 1 wax medallion set onto grey slate
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • General note

    Transferred from P*11, June 1995
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    On the back of the slate mount is written in pencil "Macarthur"
  • Attributions / conjectures

    This medallion has been said by the Library to be Reverend Archibald Macarthur, but he had left Australia before Theresa Walker arrived and died in 1847 cf. Jane Hylton, Colonial sisters Martha Berkeley and Theresa Walker, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1994, p.94 ML ref. 709.9942307/1
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