• Title
  [James Macarthur, ca. 1820 - watercolour on ivory miniature]
• Call number
  MIN 67
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1820 (dated by costume)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  404871
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour on ivory miniature encased in oval shaped gold frame with incised decorative inner border around glass front. The back of the frame is gold and deeply set. At the centre top is a loop for hanging. - 6.4 x 5 cm. portrait, inside frame (sight) - 7.9 x 6.7 cm. (frame), 0.6 cm. (loop)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  James Macarthur, fourth child of John and Elizabeth, was a landowner and politican, who was a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. Macarthur was extensively involved in sheep breeding and had excellent knowledge of the international wool market. -- Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.2, 1788-1850. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1967
• Scope and Content
  The male in this portrait is dressed in a a double breasted black wool jacket with a knotched lapel, blue-black satin waistcoast with stand collar, a white shirt with a wing-collar, and a gauffered cravat.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a128656
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Paper label on reverse of frame, "Show Case / James Mac- / Arthur / 1798-1867"
• Name
  Macarthur, James, 1798-1867
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  miniatures
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3143908

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