• Title
  [Portrait of an unidentified man, on board ship], 1842 / watercolour by Edmund Edgar
• Creator
  Edmund Edgar, approximately 1804-
• Call number
  P2/472
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1842
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  201966
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour on card - 14.1 x 12.2 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Edmund Edgar, also known as Eagar, and by the aliases Bults and Bult, was a painter, engraver, and lithographer. Prior to his transportation to Australia for robbery in 1825, Edgar had worked in London as a miniature painter. In Sydney, Edgar was assigned to Augustus Earle and helped on the production of lithographs.
  
  Reference:
  Dictionary of Australian Artists / by Joan Kerr. Melb, Vic : Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Collection history
  This portrait was offered previously at Sotheby's (London) 22 October 1986 lot 130
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a128535
  This item has been preserved and digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed in pencil on reverse "Drawn by Edmund Edgar / Sydney New South Wales / April 1842"
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  capstans
  miniatures
  portraits
  rigging (ships)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1937681

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