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442020
  • Title
    [Bathurst], c.1847-57 / painted by Joseph Backler?
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ML 973
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    c.1847-57
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    442020
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    1 painting - oil on canvas, laid on board, moulded gilt frame, glass fronted - 78 x 108 cm., incl. frame
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    Undated. Date approximated from dates Backler was in Bathurst, and the date (source unknown) inscribed on back of frame
    Unsigned
    Attributed to Backler from information provided by the former owner, who believed the work to have been acquired at the same time as family portraits of Thomas Lee and Fanny Eleanor Lee (both undated, the former signed "J. Backler", lower right)
    Untitled. Titled from information provided by former owner
    An indecipherable torn framer's label is pasted to the backing board; the work was extensively restored, laid down on board and reframed a number of years before acquisition by the Library; there is some indication that there may originally have been an inscription, lower left
    Digital order no:a928569
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    "J. Backler 1857. Born 1815 England Died 1897" -- handwritten in pencil on back of frame - a later, unidentified hand
  • Conservation note

    Paintwork cracked all over.
  • Subject
  • Topic
  • Place
  • Exhibited in

    Pride of place - State Library of New South Wales (27 September - 29 November, 2004)
    Women Transported : Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories - Parramatta Heritage Centre (August, 2008 - November, 2010)

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