IMAGE
Oliver, Richard Aldworth 1811-1889: "Fanny Weller, a half-caste girl, Otago" [1850?]
- Date
- ca 1850
- By
- Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889
- Reference
- C-001-012
- Description
Shows a young Māori woman, standing in three-quarters profile, a gourd in her right hand. Her upper garment is draped to expose her right breast and she is wearing a long skirt and a shark's tooth ear adornment.
Accompanied by a certificate of authentication, signed by Madeleine McClintock (in photocopy form, taken from actual adhered to backing board)
Title transcribed from item.
Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Fanny Weller, a half-caste girl, Otago [in pencil, possibly in the artist's hand]
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour and gouache on paper, 530 x 360 mm
Provenance: Prior to purchase, passed down through the Oliver family to Mr G.C.S. Oliver of Rutland, England. Exhibited at New Zealand House, London for about 20 years, to the early 1980s. Inherited by G.C.S. Oliver's daughter, Mrs Madeleine McClintock of Sheffield, England
Processing information: Description updated 23 August 2023 following information provided by a staff member.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Portraits, Ethnographic illustrations, Watercolour and gouache on paper, 530 x 360 mm, Orientation: Vertical image
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