• Title
  [Dr Helenus Scott, 1820 - watercolour on ivory miniature / attributed to Miss Sharpe]
• Creator
  Misses Sharpe
• Call number
  MIN 352
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1820 (Dated from National Art Gallery of NSW Loan Exhibition, 1897, lots 533, 534, 536 & 537) ML ref. 042/P84)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  80843
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour on ivory miniature in ebonised wooden frame with an oval brass slip of acanthus design. A hanger with an acorn design base is fixed at top centre of wooden frame - 7.2 x 5.7 cm (oval, sight) in a wooden frame 16.8 x 15.c cm
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Identity of subject determined by provenance of miniature, and age of sitter.
  
  Attributed to the Misses Sharpes : miniature was exhibited by Rose Scott in the National Art Gallery Loan Exhibition of 1897 when it was said to be by "Miss Sharpe, 1820" ML ref. 042/P84. Two Miss Sharpes - Eliza (1796-1874) and Mary Anne (1802-1867) - were exhibiting in 1820 cf. Daphne Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters vol. 1, 1972, p.501-502 GRL ref.EQ 757.7/FOS
  
  This Scott family miniature, and four others (MINs 353, 354, 355 & 356), were acquired from a presumed descendant of Rose Scott (provenance has not been traced). On the reverse of MIN 355 is an exhibition label, [National Art Gallery] Art Loan Exhibition, 1897, in which Miss Rose Scott is said to be the owner of five miniatures displayed in this exhibition - no's. 533-537.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 947141
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  A newscutting entitled "Funeral of the late Captian Helenus Scott, P.M." was attached to reverse of miniature (since removed) is now kept loose with storage box. This cutting refers to the son of Dr Helenus Scott
• Name
  Scott, Helenus, 1760-1821
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  miniatures
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1060020

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