• Title
  Item 03: Louisa [i.e. Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson, ca. 1842-1846 / portrait attributed to C.E. Atkinson]
• Call number
  P2/371
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  ca. 1842-1846
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  446199
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 22.5 x 18.2 cm. (image) ; 31.8 x 25.4 cm. (sheet) - watercolour and pencil
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For biographical information on Louisa Atkinson, see Dictionary of Australian Artists / by Joan Kerr. Melb, Vic : Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Scope and Content
  The portrait is a head only side view of the sitter, facing left.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The work is not signed or dated.
  
  The handwritten caption and style of presentation (the upper edge of the drawing is affixed to card) is similar to other portraits from the same donor located at P2/368-370 (though P2/370 has a different caption).
  Digital order no:a928421
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled, "Louisa" in ink beneath portrait.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Believed by the donor to have been painted by the sitter's elder sister, Charlotte Elizabeth, before her marriage on 22 July 1847. For further information, see notes filed at PXn 836.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Atkinson, Charlotte Elizabeth, 1828-1911
  
• Name
  Atkinson, Louisa, 1834-1872
  
• Topic
  artists
  authors
  portraits
  
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