• Title
  [Eliza Morisset, ca. 1860 / photographed by Edwin Dalton]
• Creator
  Edwin Dalton, active 1853-1865
• Call number
  MIN 138
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  ca. 1860
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  439946
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - visible image 6.4 x 5.3, case 9.3 x 8 x 2 cm. (closed) - 1/6th plate hand-coloured ambrotype in pinchbeck frame, inside velvet-lined Russian seal skin Eickmeyer case with gilded brass clasp
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Eliza Morisset (nee Lawson) was the eldest daughter of William and Caroline Lawson and grand-daughter of Lieut. William Lawson, pastoralist and Blue Mountains explorer. In 1860 she married Kelso magistrate Edric Morisset. Soon after, she had her portrait taken by society photographer Edwin Dalton, of the Royal Photographic Establishment, Sydney.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The ambrotype, being the original camera negative, is laterally inverted (or back-to-front), so that Eliza's wedding ring appears on her right hand -- Curator of Photographs, State Library of NSW, 2004.
  An almost identical ambrotype portrait of Eliza Morisset, taken at the same sitting, is available at Location Number: MIN 139 Mitchell Library.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1257761
• Name
  Lawson, Eliza, 1834-1900
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Photograph and Australia (Art Gallery of New South Wales)
  The Photograph and Australia (Queensland Art Gallery)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1072312

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