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9639047
  • Title
    Item 01: Rev[erend] Chas [i.e. Cunningham] Atchison Wo[llon]gong [miniature portrait], 18[50?] / by G. B. Sha[w]
  • Call number
    MIN 552
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    18[50?]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    9639047
  • Physical Description
    1 watercolour - visible image, oval 13 x 10 cm., in oval mount 25 x 21 cm., in frame 28 x 24 cm. - on wove paper with pencil, in contemporary gilt rectangular frame
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Rev. Cunningham Atchison (1806-1870), the second Presbyterian minister at Wollongong.

    References:
    Pioneer families (1935, March 20). Sydney Mail, p. 23. (viewed 18 June 2019) http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166108658
  • Scope and Content
    A miniature watercolour on buff board, mounted in a rectangular gilt and gesso frame. The head-and-shoulders portrait shows Reverend Atchison wearing jacket, cravat and glasses.
  • Access Conditions

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

    Title and date taken from handwritten label on mount.
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Handwritten iron gall ink label on mount reads ‘Rev. Chas Atchison Wo […] gong. 18[..] by G. B. Sha[..]’
  • Attributions / conjectures

    Attributed to George Baird Shaw by vendor based on handwritten label.
  • Date note

    Illegible date on handwritten label.
  • Subject

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