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Ludwig Becker
Caroline Davidson (1854)
miniature: watercolour on fictile ivory
(5.7 × 4.6 cm) (image) (oval) 13.5 × 12.2 cm (frame)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1996
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Caroline Davidson
(1854)
Medium
miniature: watercolour on fictile ivory
Measurements
(5.7 × 4.6 cm) (image) (oval) 13.5 × 12.2 cm (frame)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1996
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
on frame: inscribed in pen and ink on reverse u.c.: Caroline Davidson / sixteen years (...illeg.)age
inscribed in pen and ink on reverse l.c.: (...illeg.) / Victoria.-Australia / idson
inscribed (vertically) in pen and ink on reverse c.l.: A very bad likeness. (very underlined twice)
inscribed (vertically) in pen and ink on reverse c.r.: Painting of a / German artist named Becker / who perished with Bourke & Wills
(on backing) inscribed in blue ballpoint pen on reverse c.: D(...illeg.) / Douglas / ag(...illeg.)ears
Accession Number
1996.571
Department
Australian Prints & Drawings
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