[Sophia Rebecca Lawson, ca. 1860 / photographed by Edwin Dalton]

MIN 143

file

ca. 1860

Graphic Materials, Photographs

440183

Photographs - 1/6th plate hand-coloured ambrotype in pinchbeck frame, inside velvet-lined Eickmeyer case with gilded brass clasp - visible image 6.8 x 5.6, case 9.3 x 8.2 x 1.5 cm. (closed)

Sophia Rebecca Lawson was the daughter of Caroline (nee Icely) and William Lawson and the grand-daughter of Lieut. William Lawson, pastoralist and Blue Mountains explorer. In 1884 she married Edward Richard Deas-Thomson.
For further genealogical information see PXn 870, available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room.

The female in this portrait wears a taffeta dress that buttons down the front and features horizontal tucks across the bodice, and engageant sleeves with with fringing.

Photographer identified as Edwin Dalton because of the studio furniture he used in his Royal Photographic Establishment, Sydney -- Curator of Photographs, State Library of NSW, 2004.
An almost identical ambrotype portrait of Sophia Rebecca Lawson, taken at the same sitting, is available at Location Number: MIN 144 Mitchell Library.

Titled from accompanying note in later (donor's) hand.