• Title
  Thomas Watson, 1859 / oil portrait by Joseph Backler
• Call number
  ML 970
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, East Wall, no. 291
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1859
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  403995
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas, in original gilt frame - 92 x 71 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Watson is shown wearing a medal awarded to him by Lloyds' of London, for his part in the rescue of the Boy Forbes, from Timor, in 1839.
  Digital order no:a128114
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed at lower left: J. Backler / 1859
• Name
  Watson, Thomas, 1795-1879
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  ships' captains
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Picture Gallery 2: Backler & friends - aspects of portraiture in colonial Sydney - State Library of New South Wales (15 November, 1999 - 16 July, 2000)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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