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Catherine Helen Spence
Gordon, Maudec. 1901
State Library of South Australia
Adelaide, Australia
Miniature portrait in oils of Catherine Helen Spence. Seated at a desk, she is wearing a formal dress with cap, a watch chain and a horseshoe brooch at her throat. She was a journalist, novelist, social and political reformer and a champion for women's rights including the vote. At her death in 1910 she was mourned as 'the grand old woman of Australia'.
Painted from a photograph.
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Details
- Title: Catherine Helen Spence
- Creator: Gordon, Maude
- Date Created: c. 1901
- Location: Adelaide
- Physical Dimensions: 72 x 64 mm
- Original Language: English
- Type: painting
- Original Source: http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:80/record=b2049508~S1
- Rights: This work is out of copyright. No copyright restrictions apply.
- External Link: http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:80/record=b2049507~S1
- Medium: paper, oils
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