• Title
  [Mrs J.D. Lang, widow of the Reverend John Dunmore Lang, ca 1880s] / artist unknown
• Call number
  DL Pa 2
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca 1880-1920
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  457640
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour (possibly over-painted photograph) on ivory stored in oval shaped case, with frame of pearls, purple plush and gold, with loop at centre top for hanging. Back of oval case is purple plush and hinged recessed attached stand, hallmark of HB (Hardy Brothers) and 15 ct. The box is leather with two hinges and a clasp. The base is lined in royal blue plush and the lid is lined with cream silk with gold embossing of Hardy Brothers Goldsmiths & Jewellers 13 Hunter St Sydney. - 7.4 x 5.1 cm. (image, sight) ; 11.8 x 9.6 cm. (case) ; 15.5 x 14.5 cm. (box)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Wilhelmina Lang (nee Mackie), (1812-1891) was born in Greenock, Scotland on the 24th September, 1812. Wilhelmina was persuaded by her cousin, the Rev. John Dunmore Lang to marry him whilst on board the ship Stirling Castle in Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope on the 25th August, 1831. Rev. Lang was escourting Wilhelmina to Sydney to marry his brother, Andrew. The wedding took place before their arrival in Sydney to avoid opposition from Lang's mother, anticipated because of the difference in their ages. John Dunmore Lang, (1799-1878), was a Presbyterian clergyman, politician, educationist, and supporter of immigration. He arrived in Sydney in May 1823 and through private funds begun the Scots Church, which was finished in 1826. The marriage and family life was happy, marred only by tragedies involving their children; of ten, five died in infancy. Wilhelmina died at Blackheath, N.S.W. on 6th October, 1891. Sources: John Dunmore Lang: chiefly autobiographical 1799-1878 by Archibald Gilchrist. ML QA922.5/L269/1A3-4. Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The work is not signed, titled, or dated. Date derived from approximate age of sitter, her husband's death in 1878, and her death in 1891.
  The case and box would have been made post-1911. This has been determined by the hallmark of Hardy Brothers. The co-joined HB was adopted in 1911.
  Identification of portrait from Freeman negative 59386-7; ONCY: 17/280-281
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1315458
• Name
  Lang, Wilhelmina, 1812-1891
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  miniatures
  picture frames
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Century of Portraits : an Exhibition of Portraits Selected from the Collections of the Mitchell and Dixson Galleries - State Library of New South Wales (1979)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3246344

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