• Title
  Mrs Laycock, 1826 / drawn by R. Read
• Creator
  Richard Read, 1796-1862
• Call number
  DG P1/2
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1826
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  457687
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour - oval shaped 20 x 16.8 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Hannah Laycock (1758-1831) married to Thomas Laycock (1756?-1809), arrived in the Gorgon in September 1791, left again for England about 1805. She returned to the colony in 1810 after her husband died. The Laycocks had three sons and three daughters, including Thomas who married Isabella, daughter of Eber Bunker (see MIN 321 & MIN 322 for miniatures of Thomas and Isabella).
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• General note
  
  A MS biographical note on Mrs Laycock, a copy of her will and a cutting of article from Country Life (20 Sept. 1929, p.2) on the Laycock family is filed at Al 72.
  Digital order no:a1528573
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed R.Read, 1826 lower left.
  On back in ink 'Sydney Sept. 29th 1826. Painted by R.Read Jnr, No. 61 Pitt St. Sydney, New South Wales. Mrs Laycock'.
• Name
  Laycock, Hannah, 1758-1831
  
• 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
  IE3238533

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