File 15 - Bowlby, George Herbert.

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Title proper

Bowlby, George Herbert.

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  • Graphic material

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SCA238-GA237-2-15

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  • 1917 (Creation)

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Physical description

1 painting : waterlcolour on ivorine ; 4 x 3 cm

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Biographical history

Emma Allen Bowlby was born to David Sovereign Bowlby and Martha Esther Murphy Bowlby in Waterloo in 1862. When she was 21, in 1884, she married the 39 year old Gardiner Boyd. Gardiner Boyd was born in 1845 to Mossom Boyd and Caroline Dunsford of ... »

Scope and content

File consists of one painted portrait of George Herbert Bowlby in his army uniform. The painting appears to be watercolour on ivorine, and the signature reads E.C. Blisley, 1917. Bowlby died in 1917 during First World War and this is possibly a commemorative portrait.

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