The frame is almost certainly the one itemized in the accounts for 7 February, 1871.1 The corner ornaments of this frame are identical to those on the frame on Henry Short’s Fish, fruit, and flowers, (p.301.4-1) by the same maker, and were used as patterns for the restoration of that frame. Though the label is now lost it transcribed as: W.R. STEVENS & CO. Carvers, Gilders, &c. LOOKING-GLASS, and PICTURE FRAME MAKERS, 10 BOURKE STREET, MELBOURNE, Next Royal Arcade.
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