• Title
  Mrs Tryphena A. Dibbs, 1897 / painted by Tom Roberts
• Creator
  Tom Roberts, 1856-1931
• Call number
  ML 954
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 231
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1897
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  455812
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 124 x 103 cm. image, in gilt frame 155 x 134 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Untitled. Identified from a catalogue: Tom Roberts 1856-1931 / Helen Toplilss. Melbourne: A catalogue raisonne, 1985 (ML Q759.994/R647/1, vol. 1, p.151, v.II, plate 124)
  A plaque originally at lower centre read "Presented to Thomas Allwright Dibbs General Manager of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Ltd. By The Officers of the Bank in Commemoration of the Completion of his Fiftieth year of Service in the Institution 7th July 1897"
  
  Reproduced in The Australasian, 14 August 1897 p.30.
  
  Formerly hung at Graythwaite, home of Sir Thomas and Lady Dibbs until 1915, when it became a nursing home. Source: donor
  Conserved 1986
  Digital order no:Album ID : 879182
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Tom Roberts 1897 -- at lower right in red brushpoint
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  interiors
  colonial art
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (25 May - 12 October, 1992)
  Australian Portraits Timeline - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (December, 2008 - December, 2011)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1151094

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