| Batchelder Studios Sir Thomas Gore Browne 1866 Albumen print, hand-painted with watercolour and gouache 45.2 x 32.0 cm (image, oval) 58.1 x 48.0 cm (frame, oval) State Library of Victoria Accession no: H1533 LL/77091 Batchelder's fl. 1865-1867, photographer / Author / Creator: John Botterill 1817-1881, artist
Signed in brown watercolour l.r.: J. Botterill / artist.
Not dated but 1866.
In oval gilt frame possibly of American manufature.
Bears printed paper label on verso: Photographed at / BATCHELDERS'S/ 41 Collins St. East / Melbourne.
Commissioned by Sir Redmond Barry and the Trustees of the Melbourne Public Library 1866.
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