• Title
  [Lady Dorothea Banks, ca. 1800] / portrait medallion by Wedgwood
• Creator
  Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
• Call number
  P*36
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 47
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1800
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  442134
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 portrait medallion - White on lavender jasper ware medallion, stored in deeply set oval wooden frame with glass front, gilt inner border, and painted gold outer edge with decorative edges, metal ring on back for hanging - 16.5 x 14.4 x 2.6 cm. frame
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  In 1779 at St Andrew's church in Holborn, London, Dorothea Hugessen married Joseph Banks
  
  Reference:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.1, 1788-1850. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1966
• Scope and Content
  A relief head and shoulders right profile of Lady Dorothea Banks in classical dress.
• 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
  
  The portrait medallion of Lady Dorothea Banks is believed to have been modelled ca. 1800 when Lady Banks was aged in her forties. It forms a pair with a portrait medallion of Joseph Banks, modelled around the same date, which depicts him in his late fifties.
  
  This particular portrait medallion of Lady Dorothea Banks is a companion piece to the portrait medallion of Joseph Banks at P*34. Both produced ca. 1800, they are in lilac jasper dip and are housed in identical frames. The portrait of Joseph Banks at P*34 is from a design by John Flaxman Jnr, dated ca. 1775, which shows Banks as a young man. This pairing of differently dated designs was quite common.
  
  The Mitchell Library holds three portrait medallions of Lady Banks (P*36, P*64, and PM 149). In the Library's 1908 Annual report, the Wedgwood medallion of Lady Banks (P*36) is included in the list of David Scott Mitchell's collection.
  
  References:
  "Heads of illustrious moderns" : Wedgwood portrait medallions. / Catalogue written by L. Richard Smith ; exhibition researched and selected by Alan Landis and L. Richard Smith. Sydney : Library Council of New South Wales, 1985.
  The Public Library of New South Wales : annual report of the Trustees for the year ended 31st December 1908. Sydney : Public Library of New South Wales. Trustees, 1909.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 846115
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Wedgwood impressed on reverse of plaque
• Name
  Banks, Dorothea, 1758-1828
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Wedgwood ware
  Jasperware
  Portrait medallions--England
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  medallions
  portraits
  women
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Style - Powerhouse Museum
  Heads of illustrious moderns : Wedgwood portrait medallions - State Library of New South Wales
  Pieces of Wedgwood - State Library of New South Wales
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3319661

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