• Title
  Mrs Cooper, 1833 / drawn by R. Read
• Creator
  Richard Read, 1796-1862
• Call number
  DG P2/4
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1833
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  457685
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour - 33 x 26.5 cm
  
• Collection history
  Purchased at Spencer Jackson's Australiana sale 15 July 1955
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned, inscription on back reads 'Mrs Cooper, painted by R. Read, no. 89 Pitt St, Sydney, New South Wales, April 1833'
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  There are three Mrs Cooper's in the 1828 census:
  1. Sarah May married Robert Cooper Snr (the distiller) of Juniper Hall, South Head Rd. in 1822. Sarah Cooper (1802-1863) was his third wife
  2. Charlotte, wife of Henry Cooper, architect, Darling Harbour. In 1828 she was 32.
  3. Mrs Mary Cooper who owned and let a house in Cumberland St.
  
  By 1833 there may have been others, eg. Mrs Thomas Cooper, mother of Sir Daniel, arrived by George Canning on Dec. 23 1828, or, Miss Rutter married to Robert Cooper Jnr in 1830
• Name
  Cooper, Mrs
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Century of Portraits : an Exhibition of Portraits Selected from the Collections of the Mitchell and Dixson Galleries - State Library of New South Wales (1979)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE4375660

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