• Title
  Mrs Jane Tompson. Aged 42. / Clydesdale, 1836 / watercolour drawing by R. Read
• Creator
  Richard Read, 1796-1862
• Call number
  DG P2/56
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1836
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  411350
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour - 36.2 x 26.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Jane Tompson (Armytage nee Morris) was the second wife of emancipist Charles Tompson, Snr. whom she married on the 25th Aug.1822. They settled at Tompson's property at Clydesdale.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Mrs Tompson's dress was once a rich blue, but the indigo pigment has faded to a light green.
  Backing sheet now destroyed had the inscription `This portrait was taken at the age of 42 1/2 years in January 1837'.
  Formerly thought to be the portrait of the wife of Charles Thompson the poet. See notes at PXn 142 establishing the sitter to be the stepmother of the poet.
  This portrait forms a pair with `Chs Tompson Esqr. Clydesdale' at DG P2/55
  Frame at F240
  Digital order no:a1528446
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on reverse & also inscribed "Painted by R. Read, 45 Pitt / Street Sydney New South Wales, / Novr. 1836"
• Name
  Tompson, Jane, b. 1794
  
• Subject
  Portraits, Australian--19th century.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Adult Females
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (25 May - 12 October, 1992)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3155559

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