• Title
  Tom Thumb's lagoon, Illawarra / Maurice Felton
• Creator
  Maurice Felton, 1803-1842
• Call number
  ML 1458
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1840
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  1006413
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 48 x 71 cm in frame
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Naval surgeon Maurice Felton (1803-42) arrived in the New South Wales colony in 1839 and quickly gained acclaim for his artistic abilities, which surpassed his professional duties as a surgeon in the colony. In the few years he spent in Sydney, he produced a number of fine portraits of society figures, including artist Conrad Martens (ML 28). Felton’s portraits were mentioned on several occasions in the Sydney papers and always with enthusiasm.
  
  His artistic career was short lived, due to his untimely death at the age of 40 from unrecorded causes, less than four years after his arrival in Sydney. Felton died on 30 March 1842. While Felton is well known as a portraitist, he also produced landscapes and
  Tom Thumb’s Lagoon may have been one of the works sold at the art union lottery in early 1842; “The lottery, held at Felton’s Hunter Street home, was conducted with the assistance of Thomas Henry Braim, principal of the Sydney College. Tickets cost £1.”,
  
  References:
  Design and Art Australia Online, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/maurice-appleby-felton/biography/, accessed 1 March, 2016
  Library correspondence file
• Collection history
  Provenance: James Earngey inherited this work from his uncle, John Earngey.
• Scope and Content
  View of Tom Thumb's lagoon, surrounded by bushland and the Illawarra Escarpment in the distance. There are three European figures in the centre foreground on the edge of the lagoon, and a small sailing boat.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title and date from backing.
• General note
  
  This work is in its original frame.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated on backing in pencil by artist.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attribution on backing written in pencil by artist.
• Name
  Felton, Maurice, 1803-1842
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  sailing boats
  bush
  landscapes (views)
  lagoons
  
• Place
  Illawarra (N.S.W.)
  Tom Thumbs Lagoon
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20519196

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