• Title
  Set of five miniatures of Richard Bourke and family, 1800 / Will Wood
• Creator
  Will Wood
• Call number
  SAFE/P*112
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1800
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  866789
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  5 watercolours - on ivory - various sizes in metal frames on rectangular mount 35.1 x 31 cm in wooden frame
  
• Scope and Content
  Included in the set are portraits of Richard Bourke's father, John (upper left), his sister (upper right), his bride Elizabeth (centre), Richard (lower left), and his mother Anne (lower right); painted on the occasion of Richard Bourke's marriage in 1800.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator 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
• General note
  
  Keyword subjects:
  Bourke, Anne
  Bourke, John
  Bourke, Elizabeth Jane
  Digital order no:Album ID : 990741
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  The miniature of Richard Bourke is inscribed in ink on backing 'By Will Wood of Cork Street London'. None of the others is signed, dated or titled.
  
  On backing sheet of miniature of Elizabeth is written in pencil 'Bourke Thornfulds [sic] Lisnagry Co. Limerick', in unknown hand.
  
  Frames encircling miniatures are of metal within upper surrounds of brass with traces of gilt; mounted on velvet within wooden frame.
• Date note
  
  Dated and identified from information provided by Gerard Bourke, the former owner and great-great-grandson of Richard Bourke.
• Conservation note
  
  Miniatures removed from frame and placed in mounts, October 2012. Frame stored in same box.
• Name
  Bourke family
  Bourke, Richard, Sir, 1777-1855
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  miniatures
  Governors
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE566306

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