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861925
  • Title
    Item 01: Portrait of Dame Mary Gilmore, 1891 / Ethel Anna Stephens
  • Call number
    ML 952
    Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 211
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    1891
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    861925
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    1 painting - visible image 60.5 x 50.3 cm, inside frame 72.3 x 61.8 cm - oil on canvas, laid down on board
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    From the collection of Major Hubert Wesley grace.
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Finding Aids
    Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 672 -
  • Description source

    Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
  • General note

    Titled from material which accompanied the portrait; see letter from Dame Mary Gilmore to Mr Grace, 19 June 1955, in which she refers to sitting for the portrait, and cutting from Sunday Telegraph, 4 December 1966, pp.27-28, which features a photo of Dame Mary looking at the portrait (Reference : ML DOC 3577). Photocopies of the letter and newscutting are filed at PXn 672.

    Reproduced in Mary Gilmore: a tribute. Sydney, Australasian Book Society, 1965, opp. p.48.

    Keyword subjects:
    Cameron, Mary
    Digital order no:a928581
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Signed and dated 'Ethel A. Stephens. 1891', upper left.
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