• Title
  [Elizabeth Riddell with black cat], 1946 / portrait by Dahl Collings
• Creator
  Dahl Collings
• Call number
  ML 1138
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 258
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1946
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  135942
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on masonite - 46.5 x 41 cm., in wooden frame 61.5 x 56 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright. Life of artist plus 70 years.
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright owner
• General note
  
  The portrait was painted on the balcony of the house rented in the mid-1940s by Elizabeth Riddell and her husband, 22 The Crescent, Parsley Bay, Vaucluse. The cat was called 'Celestina' and used to sit on the rocks beneath the house at the water's edge. One of the Port Jackson pilot boats is in the right middle distance. Geoffrey and Dahl Collings were family friends and professional colleagues. (ref. conversation between Elizabeth Riddell and Elizabeth Ellis, 28 May 1998)
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated in brushpoint lower left "Dahl 46"
• Name
  Riddell, Elizabeth, 1907-
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  cats
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9351023

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