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403534
  • Title
    [William Busby, 1859 / portrait by artist unknown, Rome]
  • Call number
    ML 1208
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1859
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    403534
  • Physical Description
    1 painting - oil on canvas - 76 x 63 cm, 74 x 62.5 cm (sight) within oval mount, 73.5 x 62.5 cm in elaborate wood and gilt moulded frame with decorated oval mount, 101 x 89.5 cm
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    For biographical details on William Busby, see 'Australian Dictionary of Biography', vol. 5, p. 310
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright status:: Artist died before 1955
  • General note

    Dated 1859 from transcript from William Busby's diary in 'A history of the Busby family' / by A.D.M. Busby (ca. 1994). Location : Mitchell Library Q929.20994/B976/1 SET, v. 4, p. 2180. The portrait, with that of Busby's wife, Catherine Anne, was painted when they were on holiday in Italy.
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Fragments of artist's label (illegible) on reverse, frame edge, upper left. (Probably once the same as that on the portrait of Catherine Anne (Annie) Busby)
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