• Title
  Item 01: Portrait of Dame Mary Gilmore, 1891 / Ethel Anna Stephens
• Call number
  ML 952
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 211
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1891
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  861925
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas, laid down on board - visible image 60.5 x 50.3 cm, inside frame 72.3 x 61.8 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  From the collection of Major Hubert Wesley grace.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 672 -
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Titled from material which accompanied the portrait; see letter from Dame Mary Gilmore to Mr Grace, 19 June 1955, in which she refers to sitting for the portrait, and cutting from Sunday Telegraph, 4 December 1966, pp.27-28, which features a photo of Dame Mary looking at the portrait (Reference : ML DOC 3577). Photocopies of the letter and newscutting are filed at PXn 672.
  
  Reproduced in Mary Gilmore: a tribute. Sydney, Australasian Book Society, 1965, opp. p.48.
  
  Keyword subjects:
  Cameron, Mary
  Digital order no:a928581
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated 'Ethel A. Stephens. 1891', upper left.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Stephens, Ethel A., 1855-1944
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Women--Australia--Portraits.
  Portraits, Australian--19th century.
  Authors, Australian--19th century--Portraits.
  Portraits, Australian--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3317909

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