• Title
  Item 03: Harriott Blaxland, ca. 1800s / miniature painted photographic portrait by Richard Dighton
• Call number
  MIN 56
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1800
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  431580
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 item of jewellery - 2.9 x 2.4 cm., portrait, inside frame (sight) - 4.4 x 3.6 cm. (frame) - hand-painted photograph portrait in oval shaped metal pinchbeck frame painted gold, attached with clasps to eight strands of plaited human of hair, blonde in colour.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Harriott Mary de Marquett married John Blaxland in 1797. -- Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.1, 1788-1850. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1966
• Scope and Content
  The female in this portrait wears a muslin dress typical of the late 1780's that comprises a fitted sleeveless bodice over a undergown with a fichu (sheer muslin) shawl across the shoulders. Her hair is unpowdered.
• 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
  
  The miniature is an overpainted photograph of an earlier watercolour.
  Although the costume is dated to late 1780's, the female in this portrait is older than her chronological age for this period.
  This item is fashioned like a choker and may have been worn by a family descendant.
  The text on the mount on reverse of image is difficult to discern.
  Two plaited strands of hair are loose from clasps.
  For notes on dating by Mrs. Windeyer, see PXn 356.
  This object is similar to MIN 90, John Blaxland [ca. 1880] / painted photographic portrait by Dighton.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823407
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  ... Mrs John ... handwritten in black ink on mount on reverse of image.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Dighton, Richard, 1795-1880
  
• Name
  Blaxland, Harriott, 1777-1852
  
• Subject
  Mourning jewelry.
  Portraits, Australian--19th century.
  
• Topic
  hair (people)
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Private Lives: Families of N.S.W.

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