• Title
  Francis Howard Greenway / pencil portrait by unknown artist
• Call number
  ML 482
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  between 1814 and 1837
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  832559
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - pencil drawing, in oval mount, framed - 33 x 24 cm. (view) in frame 53 x 43 cm.
  
• Collection history
  Lent to the Mitchell Library in 1922 by Mrs Caroline E. Irving of Chatswood, who promised to present it later. The portrait was donated to the Library in 1948.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Plaque on frame reads “Francis Howard Greenway / Architect under Governor Macquarie / Presented by Mrs. E. C. [i.e. C. E. ?] Irving”.
  
  Presented by Mrs. C. E. Irving (Francis Greenway’s granddaughter), 1948. The letter of acknowledgment says it is a self portrait – ML Pictures card catalogue
  Digital order no:a1528291
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  "I have seen in Mr Syd Ure Smith's studio the portrait of your grandfather, Francis Greenway, sketched by himself" -- letter of acknowledgment from the Principal Librarian, Public Library of NSW, to Mrs Caroline E. Irving (Mrs S.[?] R. Irving), 10 March 1922 (ML letterbook)
• Conservation note
  
  Preservation report filed in ML Pictures BM stack
• Name
  Greenway, Francis, 1777-1837
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  architects
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The most useful Art: Architecture in Australia, 1788-1985 - State Library of New South Wales (6 August, 1985 - 2 March, 1986)
  Francis Greenway exhibition - Hyde Park Barracks (July, 1997 - January, 1998)
  The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 - State Library of New South Wales (July, 2010 - October, 2010)

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