[Maria Emily Lawson, 1845 / photographed by George Goodman]

MIN 345

item

1845

Graphic Materials, Photographs

61969

Digitised

Photographs - 1/9th daguerreotype (without case) - 6.5 x 5.2 cm.

Maria Emily Lawson was the fourth daughter of William and Caroline Lawson and a grand-daughter of Lieut. William Lawson, pastoralist and Blue Mountains explorer.
See PXn 870 for a Lawson and Icely family tree, available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room. See also Annals of the Street family of Birtly / by Kenneth W. Street (1941).

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

This daguerreotype can be dated to 3 March 1845, when a series of portraits of the Lawson family were made -- Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library
Others in this series are located at MIN 142, MIN 155, MIN 157-158, MIN 323 Mitchell Library.
Digital order no:a128784

Private Lives: Families of N.S.W. - State Library of New South Wales (1 January, 2001 - 3 February, 2002)
The Photograph and Australia (Art Gallery of New South Wales) - Art Gallery of New South Wales (March, 2015 - June, 2015)
The Photograph and Australia (Queensland Art Gallery) - Queensland Art Gallery