• Title
  John Thomas Bigge, 1819? / portrait after Thomas Uwins
• Call number
  PM 153
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1819?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  853112
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 glazed ceramic panel - 23.6 x 19cm
  
• Scope and Content
  Bigge is seated at a writing bureau and holds a letter with the text, `Dated 16 Mar / 1819 / Papers / relating to / New / South Wales'.
  He is wearing a brown jacket with black collar, a cream coloured shirt with white stock at neckline, and grey trousers.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Copyright expired – Artist died before 1955
• General note
  
  One edge seems to have been cut to size; paint can be seen on the edges, especially the cut edge. The ceramic panel is glazed front and back.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874551
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned and undated; dated from manuscript in painting.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  The portrait is very similar to a watercolour portrait of John Thomas Bigge by Thomas Uwins (P2/290) and an oil painting of Bigge by Uwins (ML 822).
  All appear to be finished works. This ceramic and the oil painting more closely resemble each other. In the watercolour, the writing on the paper on the bureau, is denser; and the writing in Bigge's right hand is more detailed, than in either the ceramic or the oil painting.
  It is not possible to say which work might have preceded the other but it seems possible the slightly more detailed watercolour might be the earliest work.
  The ceramic is a highly finished work. It may have been painted by Uwins, known to have painted miniatures, or copied at a later date by another hand.
• Name
  Bigge, John Thomas, 1780-1843
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 - State Library of New South Wales (5 July - 10 October, 2010)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE546247

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