• Title
  Gregory Blaxland Esq. formerly of Brush Farm ... / portrait
• Call number
  ML 143
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  446305
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - pencil, in wooden frame with gilt slip and glass front - 21 x 16.8 cm. (image) ; 34.5 x 29.5 cm. (frame)
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The work is not signed or dated.
  
  Attached to the lower part of the frame is a bakelite label with black text, "Gregory Blaxland / 1778-1853. / Leader of the party that first / crossed the Blue Mountains, 1813." This label was removed, October 2010, and filed with the Restoration Report.
  
  A paper sticker with the number "143" is on the base of the frame.
  
  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:a928207
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Handwritten title beneath image, "Gregory Blaxland Esq. formerly of Brush Farm / Parramatta River, discoverer of the Blue Mountain Pass, / youngest brother of John Blaxland Esq. formerly of Newington / Kent England, late of Newington, Parramatta River"
• Name
  Blaxland, Gregory, 1778-1853
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  explorers
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 - State Library of New South Wales (5 July - 10 October, 2010)
  Crossing the Blue Mountains - State Library of New South Wales (May, 2013 - August, 2013)

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