• Title
  Emma, Harriet and Fanny Samuell, ca. 1857 / oil portrait by Fortescue Hitchins
• Creator
  Fortescue Hitchins, -1870
• Call number
  ML 1199
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, East Wall, no. 289
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1857
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  402013
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil, (re-lined) in gilt plaster frame - 81 x 91.5 cm painting; 115 x 125.5 cm frame
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  From left is Emma (b.1850), Harriet (b.1853) and Fanny (b.1847)
  Attributed to Fortescue Hitchins after comparison with a signed portrait of Maraina Smith (ML 684, Mitchell Library)
  Dated by age of children and before Hitchins moved to Maitland in ca. 1858 (see Joan Kerr ed., Dictionary of Australian Artists 1770-1870)
  This portrait was first sold with Mary Anne Samuell (ML 1190) at Lawsons 2 December 1986 lot 96. The two portraits came from Samuell family descendants
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874387
• Name
  Samuell, Emma, b.1850
  Samuell, Fanny, b.1847
  Samuell, Harriet, b.1853
  
• Subject
  girls
  
• Topic
  children
  picture frames
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Picture Gallery 2: Backler & friends - aspects of portraiture in colonial Sydney - State Library of New South Wales (15 November, 1999 - 16 July, 2000)
  Pride of place - State Library of New South Wales (September, 2004 - November, 2004)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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