• Title
  [Mrs Jane Penelope Atkinson daughter of Mrs Mary Reibey, ca. 1828 - watercolour on ivory miniature]
• Call number
  MIN 54
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1828 (dated from costume)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  431582
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour on ivory miniature in oval shaped wooden frame painted black in colour with gold painted inner edge, mounted within gold painted cardboard with glass front cover, and cardboard backing. At the back of the frame are two loops for hanging. - 8.7 x 6.8 cm. portrait, inside frame (sight) - 19 x 15.7 cm. (frame)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Jane Penelope Reibey, daughter of Thomas and Mary Reibey, was married to John Atkinson, merchant and auctioneer, in 1824. John Atkinson formed a partnership with John Bingle, John Macqueen, and Richard Charles Pritchett -- Reference: Colonial Secretary Index 1788-1825, State Records of NSW, Online Dec. 2003
• Scope and Content
  The female in this portrait wears a navy [silk] dress with a rounded waist, soft full sleeves, a separate white collar with red trim suggestive of nautical style with tie at front, a fob watch at waist, and an ornamental crown in hair.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• General note
  
  The cardboard backing is loose from frame.
  Accompanying the portrait is a non-contemporaneous bakelite rectangular label with black print giving title and donor information.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 888125
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled from black ink inscription on cardboard backing.
• Name
  Atkinson, Jane Penelope, 1807-1854
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  miniatures
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Reserve Bank: 50th Anniversary Exhibition - Currency Note Museum (16 December, 2009 - 30 March, 2010)

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