• Title
  Maraina Smith / oil portrait by Fortescue Hitchins
• Creator
  Fortescue Hitchins, -1870
• Call number
  ML 684
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1860 (dated by Hitchins's residence in Maitland)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  402135
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas, laid onto masonite, in gilt plaster frame. Some overpaintings is evident in face and landscape - 77 x 65 cm
  
• Collection history
  First deposited with the Library on permanent loan by Mrs Pamela Lobley, 1971
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Identity of sitter provided by the former owner of the portrait, who is the great-granddaughter of Maraina Smith
  Digital order no:a928060
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Damaged inscription in paint at lower left "F. Hitchins Maitland"
• Name
  Smith, Maraina, 1822-1900
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  flower arrangements
  lace
  portraits
  
• 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)

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