• Title
  Miniature portrait of Edward King Cox, ca 1860 / by Olsen
• Creator
  Olsen
• Call number
  MIN 520
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca 1860
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1353331
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 9.8 x 7 cm. - watercolour on white ivory
  1 frame with removable back, decorative brass ring and plain brass surrounding the miniature - 15 x 12.5 cm. - black painted 5 ply wood
  
• Collection history
  Edward King Cox, Mulgoa Thence by descent.
• Scope and Content
  An oval miniature portrait, executed in watercolour painted on white ivory. The work is signed ‘Olsen’ and undated. The miniature depicts the sitter, Edward King Cox (1829-1883), as a young sporting gentlemen of about 30 years of age, wearing a tailored wool jacket in a shade of red known as ‘hunting pink’, with single-notched, contrasting lapels, worn over a light coloured vest and white shirt with a starched wing collar and cravat secured with a gold, fox-headed pin set with a red stone. His hair is brushed down from a side parting and he sports a curled moustache of the style fashionable in the third quarter of the 19th century.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Date note
  
  Date based on age of Edward King Cox.
• Name
  Cox family
  Cox, Edward King, 1829-1883
  
• Subject
  Miniature painting.
  Pastoralists--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  uniforms
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8856920

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