Item 02: Mrs E. Aitchison [i.e. Isabella Osborne Atchison] wife of Rev. Aitchison [i.e. Atchison] of Wollongong [miniature portrait], 18[52?]

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18[52?]

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

9639048

1 watercolour - visible image, oval 13 x 10 cm., in oval mount 25 x 21 cm., in frame 28 x 24 cm - gouache on wove paper with pencil, in contemporary gilt rectangular frame

Isabella Osborne Atchison (1819-1899), daughter of Dr. John Osborne, Esq., R.N. (-1850) was married to Rev Cunningham Atchison (1806-1870) on Tuesday 2 June 1846 at Garden Hill near Wollongong.

References:
Family Notices (1846, June 5). The Sydney Morning Herald , p. 4. (viewed 18 June 2019), http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12887634
Find a grave, viewed 18 June 2019, https://www.findagrave.com

A miniature watercolour with gum arabic additions on thick buff paper, mounted in a rectangular gilt and gesso frame. The head-and-shoulders portrait shows Isabella Osborne Atchison with hair in plaited bun in early Victorian style dress with white collar and V shaped bodice.

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Title taken from handwritten label on mount

Handwritten iron gall ink label on mount reads: ‘Mrs E. Atchison Wife of Rev. Atchison of Wollongong 18?2 [or 1852]’

Attributed to George Baird Shaw by vendor based on handwritten label on mount of Rev. Cunningham Atchison's portrait, however the techniques used in each portrait are noticebly different.

Illegible date on handwritten label. Date based on the clothes and hairstyle of sitter which are consistent with early 1850s style dress.