Item 08: [Caroline Lawson, ca. 1870's - portrait photograph / possibly the work of J. Hubert Newman and E. O. Newman]

ML 786

item

ca. 1870s

Graphic Materials, Photographs

421501

1 photograph - hand coloured in pastel - oval 56 x 67.1 cm., on sheet 68.5 x 52.2 cm.

Portrait of a middle-aged, grey haired woman wearing a white cap and black dress, with a cameo brooch.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Appears to be an enlarged copy photograph overpainted in pastel, possibly the work of J. Hubert Newman, whose portraits were coloured by his brother E. O. Newman in the 1870s. Reference: Dictionary of Australian Artists / Joan Kerr (1992).
Attributed to E. O. Newman after comparison with ML 788 which is signed "E.O.N."
This portrait is a copy of an original hand-tinted ambrotype of Caroline Lawson, ca. 1865, in oval pinchbeck frame and leather case. Location Number: MIN 135 Mitchell Library.