• Title
  Sarah Scarvell, 1855 / oil portrait by Richard Noble
• Creator
  Richard Noble, active 1828-1865
• Call number
  ML 1339
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, East Wall, no. 299
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1855
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  404129
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas, in twentieth century reproduction gilt frame - 77 x 63.5 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This portrait passed to Sarah Scarvell's daughter, Jessie Cape. At her death in 1963 it passed to Jessie's niece, from whom the Library acquired it in 2004.
  For biographical information about the Scarvell family see Mary Lang, Home was here, Library of Australian History, Sydney, 1987
  Eight portraits by Richard Noble of the Scarvell family have been documented - see Eve Buscombe, Artists in early Australia and their portraits, Eureka Research, 1978. Mary Lang's "Home was here" also discusses the paintings on pages 180-182 and p. 214. The paintings are reproduced in black & white in both these books.
  Digital order no:a128852
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Original is signed at right middle: Rich'd / Noble / 1855
• Name
  Scarvell, Sarah Winefred Isabella Mary, 1837-1929
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Pride of place - State Library of New South Wales (27 September - 29 November, 2004)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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