• Title
  Item 04: Macquarie family silhouette portrait of Lachlan Macquarie junior, 1844 / by Frith
• Call number
  ML 1312
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1844
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1050887
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - hand cut bronzed silhouette on watercolour card - 27.6 x 21.0 cm
  
• Collection history
  Lachlan Macquarie the younger left part of his estate, including most of his father’s papers, to his close friend William Henry Drummond, later the 9th Viscount Strathallan. Thus the Macquarie estates and their contents passed to the Drummond family, where they remained in the family home, Strathallan Castle. William Drummond sold the Macquarie estates to David Greenhill (later Greenhill-Gardyne) in 1860.
• Scope and Content
  Silhouette portrait of Lachlan Macquarie junior, 1844. The silhouette dates from the time that Lachlan Junior served in the Royal Scots Greys. Lachlan Junior is depicted standing, holding his hat in his right hand. His left is resting on his dress sword. He is posed against a watercolour landscape.
• 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
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1060950
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  The silhouette is signed 'Frith 1844'. On the back of the frame is written “Captain Lachlan MacQuarie of Glenforsa, 2nd Royal Royal Scots Greys”.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  The work is signed, Frith 1844 and there were several silhouette artists with this name at this time. These include Frederick and Henry Albert Frith, who were brothers. Their father was a miniaturist and portrait painter. They advertised and took commissions in various British towns. They were working between 1837-ca. 1854. H.A Frith produced full length silhouettes stylistically very similar to this work.
  Reference:
  Library File
  British silhouette artists and their work, 1760-1860 / by Sue McKechnie, London 1978, p. 265
• Name
  Macquarie, Lachlan, 1814-1845
  
• Subject
  silhouettes
  Governors--New South Wales--Portraits.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  silhouettes
  soldiers
  Governors
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE726092

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