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455814
  • Title
    Sir Thomas Allwright Dibbs, 1897 / painted by Tom Roberts
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ML 955
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1897
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    455814
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    1 painting - oil on canvas - 128 x 108 cm., in frame 156 x 135 cm.
  • Access Conditions

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

    Untitled. Identified from a catalogue: Tom Roberts 1856-1931 / Helen Topliss. Melbourne: A catalogue raisonne, 1985 (ML Q759.994/R647/1, vol. 1, p.151, v.II, plate 124)
  • General note

    A plaque originally at lower centre read "Presented to Thomas Allwright Dibbs General Manager of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Ltd. By The Officers of the Bank in Commemoration of the Completion of his Fiftieth year of Service in the Institution 7th July 1897"

    Formerly hung at Graythwaite, home of Sir Thomas and Lady Dibbs until 1915, when it became a nursing home. Source: donor

    Reproduced in The Australasian, 14 August 1897 p.30.
    Digital order no:Album ID : 874522
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Tom Roberts 1897 -- at lower right in red brushpoint
  • Conservation note

    Conserved 1986
  • Subject
  • Topic
  • Exhibited in

    Australian Portraits Timeline - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (3 December, 2008 - 31 December, 2011)
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