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839646
  • Title
    Archdeacon William Cowper, 1853 / Marshal Claxton
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ML 897
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1853
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    839646
  • Physical Description
    1 painting - 140.1 x 111 cm inside frame; 189.5 x 160 cm gilt frame - oil
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Description source

    Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Signed and dated 'Marshal Claxton 1853' in brushpoint at lower left. Title from label attached to the frame as follows: 'Ven. William Cowper, D.D. First Rector of St. Philip's and Archdeacon of Sydney 1809-1858'.
  • Attributions / conjectures

    It is possible that the preliminary study for this is an unsigned, undated and untitled portrait in oil attributed to the same artist (compared with DG 402); the position of the sitter, details of costume and background are similar.
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