Portrait of Sheila Williams

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Public Domain
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About this object
Mid-length studio portrait of Sheila Williams thought to have been taken in 1933. The sitter is dressed in a gown. She wears a string of pearls around her neck. A watercolour has been painted onto the back of the piece of card to which the photograph has been affixed. The painting represents a row of cottages in a bush covered landscape. The following has been handwritten in pencil in the bottom right hand corner of the print: Mokai - SW 77. This indicates that the painting was executed by Sheila Williams in 1977.

Photographer, unknown.
Date, presumed 1933.
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph pasted onto a piece of card with a watercolour painted on the back.
Measurements
Photograph: Height x Width: 195 x 148mm
Card backing: Height x Width: 230 x 180mm
Subject period
Subject date
Circa 1933
Credit Line
gifted by Mrs J Sweatman
Other number(s)
m82/36, 8411, 85087

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