• Title
  Item 1: William Cox / miniature portrait by C. Rodius, 1830
• Call number
  ML 1379
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1830
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1009589
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - pencil and metalpoint drawing on prepared scratchboard - oval image 8.1 x 6.5 cm. (visible image 7.5 x 5.8 cm. in mount), in frame
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Military officer, roadmaker and builder William Cox (1764-1837) is best known for his supervision of the building of the road across the Blue Mountains in 1814. He went on to become a successful pastoralist, and a significant land owner in the colony, based at Clarendon, Windsor. He married his second wife, Anna Blachford in 1821.
  
  For further biographical information see the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 1. Carlton, Vic : Melbourne University Press, 1968.
• Scope and Content
  Head-and-shoulder profile portrait of William Cox in frame
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated at centre right, in pencil "C. Rodius 1830"
  
  The inscriptions are not visible in the mounts. Inscription information taken from: The Artist and the patron : aspects of colonial art in New South Wales / [compiled by] Patricia R. McDonald and Barry Pearce. [Sydney] : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988.
• Conservation note
  
  Frame repaired June 2010
• Name
  Cox, William, 1764-1837
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Elegance in exile - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (June - August 2012)
  Crossing the Blue Mountains - State Library of New South Wales (11 May - 12 August, 2013)
  Charles Rodius - State Library of New South Wales (17 June 2023-12 May 2024)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9000427

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