• Title
  [Portrait Lieutenant Charles Robert Grimes, 50th Regiment] / watercolour drawing by R. Read, Sydney, 1840
• Creator
  Richard Read, 1796-1862
• Call number
  P2/397
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1840
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  63415
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour and pencil - 27.2 x 21.3 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Lieutenant Charles Robert Grimes, 50th Regiment, served with the regiment in Australia from 23 March 1839. He was killed in action at Sobraon 10 February 1846, aged 25.
  
  Reference:
  50th (Queen’s Own) Regiment Campaign on the Sudlej 1845-1846. http://www.sputtr.com/canterbury+cathedral (accessed 5 July 2013)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Presented by a descendant of a god-daughter of Cassandra Joynes, the daughter of Charles Grimes, 1772-1858, Deputy-Surveyor of New South Wales. The donor's great aunt, Miss C. Homewood, presented the Library with other Grimes family portraits in 1951.
  Digital order no:a4906001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  R. Read Pinxt Sydney 1840 -- at lower left
  "Painted by R. Read 27 Pitt Street Sydney New South Wales. Lieut. C. R. Grimes 50 Regt." -- on reverse of drawing
• Name
  Great Britain. Army. (Queen's Own) Regiment, 50th
  Grimes, Charles Robert, d. 1846
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  army officers
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3284551

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