• Title
  Plover (Age 5), March 1848 / painted by Thomas Balcombe
• Creator
  T. (Thomas) Balcombe, 1810-1861
• Call number
  ML 1407
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, North Wall, no. 270
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  March 1848
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  826028
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on board - visible image 14.4 x 19.8 cm., in frame 23.5 x 28.7 cm.
  
• Collection history
  Purchased with another equine portrait by Thomas Balcombe, Old Jorrocks (Age 16) (ML1408), from Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, February 2008. The provenance of the works is given as the Jardine family of Queensland, perhaps descendants of brothers Frank and Alexander Jardine who settled in Cape York in 1864.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This painting and ML1408 are identically framed in wooden frames with corner detail, and painted in gold, now very faded. Frames are possibly original.
  Possibly exhibited in the 1849 Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts exhibition where four equine portraits of celebrated race horses were exhibited by Mr F Downes: Sydney Morning Herald 2 June 1849 p.3. JF Downes owned Jorrocks and Plover.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 846192
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed, dated and inscribed in brushpoint on verso, upper right: Plover/age 5/TT Balcombe Pinx/march 1848
  On verso is affixed printed label reading: Ackermann & Cos prepared Millboards... Strand London. Inscribed in crayon on label: "Plover" age 5 [Bromelton?] Station 18[]8
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  racehorses
  oil paintings
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE645319

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