• Title
  [Governor Richard Bourke, ca. 1835]
• Call number
  ML 125
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, West Wall, no. 122
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1835
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  404662
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas on panel - 35.5 x 25.5 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The title is taken from a pencil inscription on the reverse in an unknown hand.
  
  The portrait is similar to an engraving of Governor Bourke, after a drawing by Richard Read, Junior, which was published as a title piece for the Australian Almanack, 1835
  
  Provenance of item derived from a list of material that was deposited with the National Art Gallery (Art Gallery of N.S.W.), prior to the Mitchell Library's opening in 1910.
  Digital order no:a928182
  Artist unknown.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned and undated
• Name
  Bourke, Richard, Sir, 1777-1855
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  Governors
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (25 May - 12 October, 1992)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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