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917160
  • Title
    Photographs of the sculptress Theodora Cowan and the Cowan family, of sculptures by Theodora Cowan with some watercolour sketches / Theodora Cowan
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  • Call number
    PXA 16
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    not after 1949
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    917160
  • Physical Description
    71 photographs, 1 etching, 16 watercolours - various sizes
  • Scope and Content
    1-15. Portraits of Theodora Cowan, her sisters Ethel (Etta) and Margherita, her mother and other members of the Cowan family mostly taken in Italy, England and Australia

    16-30. Portraits of James Sewell Symington and his wife Margherita 'Margot' (nee Cowan). Some taken in Guvutu, Solomon Island

    31. William Wordsworth

    32-50. Pacific Islands, some or most of them taken in the Solomon Islands, with James Sewell Symington and probably his wife Margherita (nee Cowan) present

    52-59. Miscellaneous photographs including portraits of unidentified members of the Cowan family (?)

    60-62. Florence (engraving), an Italian villa ?, Glastonbury Abbey, England

    63-72. Sculptures by Theodora Cowan with photograph of the sculptor in her studios

    73-88. Watercolours and photographs of Theodora Cowan's scuptures
  • Description source

    Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
  • General note

    Most of the photographs were unidentified when accessioned, but by comparison with cuttings received with the photographs, now in the Cuttings File, many of the subjects were identified.
    Photographs of sculpture of Edmund Barton, Q.C., by Theodora Cowan and of Livingstone Hopkins at P1
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