• Title
  John Oxley, 1810 - [miniature portrait]
• Call number
  MIN 306
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1810
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  442723
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour drawing on oval shaped card, with black japanned rectangular wooden frame, with gilt inner mount, and two oval pieces of perspex. At the top centre of the frame is a metal clasp shaped like an rose with leaves and a metal loop to hang frame. - 10.8 x 9.2 cm. (image) ; 17.2 x 14.9 cm. (frame)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John Oxley, surveyor general and explorer, spent part of 1810 in England where Anna Josepha, widow of Governor King, was then living. -- Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.2, 1788-1850. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1967
• Scope and Content
  The male in this portrait faces to the left.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright
• General note
  
  The work is unsigned and undated. The date and title are derived from two inscriptions on oval shaped backing papers accompanying the portrait. One inscription, in black ink, appears to be in John Oxley's hand (see Letters dated 31 January and 20 April 1823, ML Ref. A 1976, pp. 243-249, 279). The other note is a transcript of the first and written in pencil in a different hand.
  For further information, see PXn 644.
  The portrait was removed from the frame by SLNSW Preservation Staff at an unknown date.
  Both the portrait and the frame bear evidence of damage and wear.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874370
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled and dated from dedicaton on backing sheet on reverse, "Mrs King from / her affectionate / friend John Oxley / 1810"
• Subject
  Oxley, John, 1783-1828.
  
• Topic
  explorers
  portraits
  surveyors
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The coming of the strangers : life in Australia, 1788-1822 - State Library of New South Wales (20 January - 31 December, 1988)
  The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 - State Library of New South Wales (July, 2010 - October, 2010)

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