• Title
  [Eliza Lawson, May 1845 / photographed by George Goodman]
• Creator
  George Baron Goodman, d. 1851
• Call number
  MIN 157
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  May 1845
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  439861
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1/9th plate daguerreotype in pinchbeck frame, inside velvet lined morocco leather Wharton casket (case) - visible image 6 x 4.8 cm., case 9 x 7.7 x 2 cm. (closed)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Eliza Lawson was the eldest daughter of William and Caroline Lawson and a grand-daughter of Lieut. William Lawson, pastoralist and Blue Mountains explorer. She later married Edric Morisset in 1860.
  For further biographical notes see PXn 870, available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room. Genealogical information taken from the Annals of the Street Family of Birtley / by Kenneth Whistler Street (1941)
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Early Sydney photographer George Goodman travelled to Bathurst at the request of 100 subscribers and spent three weeks taking daguerreotypes at the Victoria Hotel in April and May of 1845 -- Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, 2004
  In May 1845, George Goodman photographed the Lawson family, probably at their property 'Veteran Hall' in Prospect, producing a set of six or more exquisite daguerreotype portraits. (Others in this series are located at MIN 142, MIN 155, MIN 158, MIN 323 and MIN 345). Dressing up for the occasion, the girls wore similar dresses highlighting the remarkable family resemblance between them -- Curator notes, 'Private Lives' exhibition, 2001.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1257753
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  T. Wharton stamped on reverse of pinchbeck frame
• Name
  Lawson, Eliza, 1834-1900
  
• Subject
  girls
  
• Topic
  picture frames
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (25 May - 12 October, 1992)
  Private Lives: Families of N.S.W. - State Library of New South Wales (January, 2001 - February, 2002)
  Eye 4 photography - State Library of New South Wales (January, 2005 - May, 2005)
  The Photograph and Australia (Art Gallery of New South Wales) - Art Gallery of New South Wales (March, 2015 - June, 2015)
  The Photograph and Australia (Queensland Art Gallery) - Queensland Art Gallery
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1112210

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