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843907
  • Title
    Sir William Westbrooke Burton, ca.1844? / William Griffith
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ML 983
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1844?
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    843907
  • Physical Description
    1 drawing - crayon with white watercolour - 36 x 28.3 cm : timber frame 52.5 x 44.9 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

    Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Unsigned, untitled.
  • Attributions / conjectures

    The sketch, or a similar sketch, is attributed to William Griffith and described as 'a preliminary sketch for the large oil portrait' (ca. 1844) of Sir William Westbrooke Burton, in Buscombe, Eve, 'Artists in early Australia and their portraits', 1976, p.246, ML 759.9901/35/PICS.
  • Date note

    Undated
  • Conservation note

    The ML sketch does not show apparent damage (possibly due to photographic process?) compared with reproduction in Buscombe
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