• Title
  Frances (Mrs Edward Gostwyck) Cory, late 1820s / oil portrait by unknown artist
• Call number
  DG 404
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 235
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  late 1820s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  826126
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 18.5 x 17.4 cm., in a timber frame 27.9 26 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Extract from letter 9 Dec. 1970 from M.L. to Mr. F.Cory (M.L. 1271/70)
  ...The 1828 Census gives this information about Edward Gostwyck Cory: — aged 31, wife Frances 28, came in “Allies" 1823, owned vineyard cottage, Paterson’s Plains, total 4800 acres, 300 cleared and cultivated, 16 horses, 320 horned cattle. ...
  
  Reference:
  Notes from PXn 273
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Copy Print : P1/C
  Digital order no:Album ID : 956974
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned, untitled and undated
• Date note
  
  Dated from the appearance of the ruffled fichu or collar, and puff sleeves added to Regency dress
  
  Reference:
  Margot Riley, dress historian
• Name
  Cory, Frances
  
• Subject
  Portrait painting, Australian.
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  portraits
  landowners
  wives
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE650420

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