440353
- TitleJohn Thomas Bigge, ca. 1819 / oil portrait after Thomas Uwins
- Call numberML 822
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
ca. 1819 - Type of material
- Reference code440353
- Physical Description1 painting - 21.8 x 16.8 cm. (image, sight), 29.7 x 24.8 cm. (frame) - oil on board, in gold painted rectangular wooden frame that is decorated along inner edge with a curved "tongue" design, and balls along the outer edge of frame.
- Scope and ContentBigge is seated at a writing bureau and holds a letter with the text, "Dated 16 [Nov.?] / 1819 / Papers / relating to / New / South Wales". He is wearing a brown jacket with black collar, a cream coloured shirt with white stock at neckline, and grey trousers.
- Access Conditions
Access via appointment - Copying ConditionsReproduction Restricted: Not to reproduced without permission.
- General note
The painting is on wooden board primed with gesso.
The portrait is very similar to a watercolour portrait of John Thomas Bigge by Thomas Uwins (P2/290) that may have been a study for the oil painting ; and a glazed ceramic portrait of Bigge (PM 153). - Signatures / Inscriptions
Unsigned; undated.
On back of painting in ink in an unknown hand, ""J.T. Bigge Commissioner of Enquiry at the Cape and N.S. Wales 1818-1830"" - Date note
Dated from manuscript in painting. - Name
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