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Title
Female orphan school, Parramatta, after 1861 / possibly by F.A. Montague
Creator
F. A. Montague
Call number
ML 703
Level of description
fonds
Date

After 1861
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Paintings
Reference code
853017
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 painting - oil - 35.5 x 55.3 cm
Access Conditions

Access via appointment
Copying Conditions
Copyright restrictions may apply
Description source

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
General note

The buildings were later incorporated into the Rydalmere Mental Hospital.

Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room at ML 703
Digital order no:a5434001
Signatures / Inscriptions

Unsigned.
Untitled.
Attributions / conjectures

Attributed to F.A. Montague by former library officer, but reasons for doing so are unknown.
Date note

Undated; the painting probably shows the orphanage after additions were made to it in 1861 (compared with illustrations in Jervis, J., 'The cradle city', Sydney, 1963, opposite page 67. Also in Wharton, J.C., 'The Jubilee history', Sydney, 1911, p. 17. See also description in Jervis, p. 109.
Subject
Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
Topic
orphanages
schools & colleges
women
Place
Female Orphan School (Parramatta, N.S.W.)

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