• Title
  Item 2: Anna Cox / miniature portrait by C. Rodius, 1830
• Call number
  ML 1380
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1830
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1009591
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - pencil and metalpoint drawing on prepared scratchboard - oval image 8.2 x 6.6 cm. (visible image 7.5 x 5.8 cm. in mount), in frame
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Anna Cox (nee Blachford) arrived in New South Wales in 1820, accompanying an uncle who held a commission in one of the regiments quartered in New South Wales. William and Anna Cox had three sons and a daughter.
  
  Reference:
  Recollections : Australia, England, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand / by Alfred Cox. Christchurch, N.Z. : Whitcombe & Tombs, 1884.
• Scope and Content
  Head-and-shoulder profile portrait of Anna Cox wearing an indoor cap, 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 183[0?]" (indistinct)
  
  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, Anna
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  portraits
  caps
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Elegance in exile - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (1 June - 26 August, 2012)
  Charles Rodius - State Library of New South Wales (17 June 2023-12 May 2024)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8999960

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