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152353
  • Title
    Item 02: [William Arnott, ca. 1890 - portrait]
  • Call number
    ML 1165
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    ca. 1890
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    152353
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    1 photograph - 44.5 x 34.5 cm., oval (visible image) - silver bromide photoprint, overpainted with watercolour and gouache
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    Reproduced in Arnott's : 125 years of making & selling biscuits / Charlotte Rowe. Sydney: Arnott's Biscuits Limited, 1991, p. 4. Location number : Q664.7525/1 Mitchell Library
    Exhibited at the Powerhouse, Sydney, 1991 in an exhibition to celebrate Arnott's 125 years of operation
    Digital order no:a928166
    In elaborate Aesthetic/Eastlake-style wooden frame with gilding, stencilling and black lacquer front edges decorated with incised corner designs. Grey paper mount with painted decorative motifs and watergilding on inner oval. 55 x 44.6 cm., inner edge of frame; 77 x 67.5 cm., outer edge of frame. Possibly American in origin.

    Reference:
    Forgotten marriage : the painted tintype & the decorative frame 1860-1910 / Stanley B. Burns. New York: The Burns Press, 1995. Location number : NQ772.14/2 State Reference Library
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