• Title
  Item 01: Rupert Kirk Esq.re Sen.r, 1841 / Maurice Felton
• Creator
  Maurice Felton, 1803-1842
• Call number
  P2/201
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1841
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  404959
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 25.2 x 20.4 cm - pencil and wash on embossed card
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:62802
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled at lower right. Signed & dated beneath title "Maurice Felton Surgeon. Sydney / del.t March 27th 1841."
  
  Inscribed on reverse:
  Rupert Kirk born 4/10/1806. Second of the 13 children born to Rupert & Jane Kirk. Rupert Kirk Senr. Born London 29/6/1777 & died Greystanes, Prospect, NSW 9/3/1850.
  
  The 12th child Matilda born 19/1/1827 married Andrew Louis McDougall of Roxburgh of Roxburgh Place, Baulkham Hills NSW & later 1876 Police Magistrate of Grafton.
  
  Sons:
  Merchant Taylors School (Lond.) founded by Mrs Taylor’s Company 1861
  School Regr. Vol II p.215 (Vide Index p.421 – 1821 (Public Library NSW)
  Entries:
  Richd Kirk b. 7 May 1808
  * p.212 Rupert Kirk b. 4 Oct 1806 – 1879 (date left school)
  p.219 Robt. Kirk – 1823 [date left school]
  
  N.B. There is a memorial tablet in Cobbity Church to Rupert Kirk Senr. of Woodford who died 9/3/1850 aged 73 years & his wife Jane who died 10/11/1876 aged 90 years.
  * Their son Rupert was surgeon to 2nd Light Cavalry Regt. (Indian Army) He died 31/5/1852 aged 46 years (see pencil etching of handsome tomb erected by his brother officers “as a mark of their esteem & affection” at “Rajcoot” near Bombay, India)
• Name
  Kirk, Rupert, 1777-1850
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1599201

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