840374
- TitleItem 03: Portrait of a man and woman, possibly Elizabeth Selfe and her husband Henry Selfe, ca. 1856 / Thomas Skelton Glaister
- Creator
- Call numberMIN 312
- Level of descriptionitem
- Date
ca. 1856 - Type of material
- Reference code840374
- Physical Description1 photograph (enclosed in an Union case) - stereo ambrotype (hand coloured) , thermoplastic case - plate 8.2 x 10.5 cm, case 10 x 12.4 cm
- Scope and ContentSitters unidentified. Woman may be Elizabeth Selfe, compared with portraits in PXA 427 which were presented to the Library with the ambrotype, with her husband, Henry Selfe.
- Access Conditions
Access via appointment - Copying ConditionsOut of copyright: Artist died before 1955
- Description source
Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009 - General note
Keyword subjects:
Selfe, Henry
Selfe, Elizabeth (nee Smith) - Signatures / Inscriptions
Stamped on the mat 'Glaister'.
Printed on a label under the ambrotype is 'Genuine Union Case, Improved. Fine Gilt and Burnished Hinge. S. Peck & Co., Manufacturers.' see Rinhart, op. cit., for further description. - Date note
Undated; approximately dated from its case compared with Floyd & Marion Rinhart, 'American miniature case art'. A. S. Barnes, 1969, page 68 - Subject
- Topic
- Exhibited in
Husbands and Wives : photographic portraits from 19th century Australia - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (15 May - 31 July, 2010)
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