• Title
  [Bathurst], c.1847-57 / painted by Joseph Backler?
• Creator
  Joseph Backler, 1813-1895
• Call number
  ML 973
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  c.1847-57
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  442020
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas, laid on board, moulded gilt frame, glass fronted - 78 x 108 cm., incl. frame
  
• 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
  
  Undated. Date approximated from dates Backler was in Bathurst, and the date (source unknown) inscribed on back of frame
  Unsigned
  Attributed to Backler from information provided by the former owner, who believed the work to have been acquired at the same time as family portraits of Thomas Lee and Fanny Eleanor Lee (both undated, the former signed "J. Backler", lower right)
  Untitled. Titled from information provided by former owner
  An indecipherable torn framer's label is pasted to the backing board; the work was extensively restored, laid down on board and reframed a number of years before acquisition by the Library; there is some indication that there may originally have been an inscription, lower left
  Digital order no:a928569
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "J. Backler 1857. Born 1815 England Died 1897" -- handwritten in pencil on back of frame - a later, unidentified hand
• Conservation note
  
  Paintwork cracked all over.
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  country scenes
  cows
  sheep
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Bathurst (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Pride of place - State Library of New South Wales (27 September - 29 November, 2004)
  Women Transported : Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories - Parramatta Heritage Centre (August, 2008 - November, 2010)

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