• Title
  [Augusta Maria Scott, 1820 watercolour on ivory miniature / attributed to Miss Sharpe]
• Creator
  Misses Sharpe
• Call number
  MIN 353
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1820
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  80860
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 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 15.3 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 sitter determined by provenance of miniature, and age of subject
  
  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 352, 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:a128920
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Handwritten label (in biro) since removed (photostat of original with kept with miniature) "Wife of Dr Helenus Scott + her two sons / was Miss Frederick whose sister was mother of Sir John Younger Now Lord Lisgar formerly Governor of N.S.W..."
• Date note
  
  Dated from National Art Gallery of NSW Loan Exhibition, 1897, lots 533, 534, 536 & 537. ML ref. 042/P84
• Name
  Scott, Augusta Maria, c.1775-1840
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  miniatures
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A grand obsession : The D. S. Mitchell story - State Library of New South Wales (18 June - 30 September, 2007)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1698236

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