• Title
  Item 01: Set of eight miniatures of Governor Macquarie and his family. ca. 1800-1820s
• Call number
  SAFE/P*92
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  ca. 1800-1820s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  413948
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 8 miniature watercolour portraits on ivory, each encased in gold framed lockets (five of which have a lock of hair entwined in the back of the frames) - in oval mount 42.5 x 29 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  The set includes Governor Macquarie (middle left); his second wife Elizabeth (middle right); their son Lachlan (top right); Henrietta Arabella Meredith, a 'life-long friend' of Mrs Macquarie (centre); and possibly Jane Jarvis, the Governor's first wife (centre top).
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Two gold coloured metal plaques attached to the centre of the mount briefly relate the history of Lachlan Macquarie and his son.
  Three of the sitters are identified as: "Gen. Macquarie", "Mrs. Macquarie", and "Lachlan Macquarie". A fourth has a non-contemporaneous label in blue biro that reads, "Henrietta A[?]abella Meredith. Aged 4 years. Life long friend of Mrs. Macquarie."
  The portraits of Governor Macquarie and his wife bear a close resemblance to other miniatures held in the Mitchell Library - see MIN 71, MIN 236, and MIN 70 and MIN 237 respectively.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 937153
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  None of the miniatures is signed. Dated approximately by age of the sitters.
• Name
  Macquarie, Elizabeth Henrietta, 1778-1835
  Macquarie, Jane, d. 1796
  Macquarie, Lachlan, 1761-1824
  Macquarie, Lachlan, 1814-1845
  Meredith, Henrietta Arabella
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  boys
  girls
  
• Topic
  families
  Governors
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Age of Macquarie - Greenway Gallery, Hyde Park Barracks
  All in the Family - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (October, 1994 - February, 1995)
  Private Lives: Families of N.S.W. - State Library of New South Wales (January, 2001 - February, 2002)
  Australian Portraits Timeline - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (December 2008 - December 2011)

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