• Title
  Ambrotype portrait of Mary King, ca 1850 / by unknown photographer
• Call number
  MIN 517
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca 1850
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  1287071
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photograph - 9.5 x 6.8 cm (visible image); 12 x 9.5 cm (case) - ambrotype
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Mary King (1805-1872) was the daughter of Philip Gidley King who was the third governor of New South Wales. Mary married her brother-in-law Robert Copeland Lethbridge in 1826 in England. They migrated to New South Wales in 1827 and had seven children. They resided at Werrington, a property which had been assigned to Mary when her father left office in 1806. Robert and Mary built their home there, called Werrington House. Mary died 17 December 1872 at the age of 67 at the residence of her daughter Mary Copeland Cowper in Sydney.
  
  References:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography (accessed 13.4.2015)
  http://adb.anu.edu.au
  
  Trove
  http://trove.nla.gov.au (accessed 13.4.2015)
  
  Library file.
• Collection history
  Mary King (1805-1872) passed to grand-daughter Mary Anne Eleanor Lethbridge (1866-1936), passed to daughter Dora Lethbridge Nimmo (1886-1973), passed to daughter Mary Elizabeth Cleminson ( 1916-2011), passed to son Robert Barnes.
• Scope and Content
  A hand coloured ambrotype of a painted portrait of Mary King, ca 1850.
  The ambrotype is in a gilt mount frame with glass overlay, inside velvet-lined gold tooled leather and wooden case, with two metal clasps.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: Out of copyright - created before 1955
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Picture has been reproduced in 'The Admiral's wife, Mrs Philip Parker King, a selection of letters, 1817-1856, Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1967, p. 7'
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Card inscribed "With love from Dorothy. Daguerreotype of Mrs R.C. Lethbridge, Mary, 3rd daughter of Governor King, c1826. My great great grandmother of R.C. Lethbridge, Forest Vale". The card is printed, "Miss D. Butler Walsh, Kilcooley, Toorak".
• Conservation note
  
  Cover is detached from portait.
• Name
  King, Mary, 1805-1872
  
• Subject
  Women--Australia--Portraits.
  Colonists--New South Wales
  Women pioneers--New South Wales.
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  portraits
  colonists
  free settlers
  women's clothing & accessories
  ambrotypes
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8855480

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