• Title
  Mei Quong Tart's mother, ca. 1888
• Call number
  ML 1347
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, East Wall, no. 287
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1888
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  441602
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil, canvas on board - 66.5 x 53 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  The portrait of Quong Tart's mother is in the style of Chinese ancestral portraits for the period. It shows her seated and dressed in traditional costume with her embroidered rank badge. These portraits were often painted posthumously and were hung in a family temple or alter to be venerated at important anniversaries. Quong Tart is said to have returned from his 1888 visit to China with portraits of his mother and father (Reference: Dawn, 1 June 1889) and they were later displayed at an altar in his home Gallop House in Ashfield.
  Reference: Library correspondence file.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Work is untitled. Title devised from further research provided by the Library for the publication `Reading the Rooms' in 2023.
• General note
  
  Previously titled, Ancestral portrait of Quong Tart's mother, ca. 1888
  Artist unknown.
  Digital order no:a928043
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Aldenhoven, 74 Hunter Street" -- framer's label on reverse
• Date note
  
  Date unknown. Date based on Quong Tart's visit in 1888 to China... On his return it was reported that he brought back a portrait of his father, who had passed away and a portrait of his mother. It is likely that these two portraits were the ones seen hanging in the little drawing room of his Waverley home in May 1889." -- Reading the Rooms, pg. 174
• Conservation note
  
  This work was conserved in 2004 as part of the Library's ongoing paintings conservation program.
• Name
  Tart, Quong, 1850-1903
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  Chinese peoples
  mothers
  official dress
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3219237

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