Miniature picture
Photograph
Maker & role
Unknown, Photographer
Production date
circa 1870
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Object detail
Title
Portrait of Edwin Rouse
Production place
Collection
Measurements
0 - Whole, H: 4.8 x W: 3.8 x D: 1.6cm (H: 48 x W: 38 x D: 16mm)
Subject person
Credit line
Purchase, 1994
Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust Collection, Rouse Hill Estate, Museums of History New South Wales
Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust Collection, Rouse Hill Estate, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Photograph case, c1870
Description
Photograph on ivory of Edwin Rouse (1806-1862), hand coloured simulating a miniature painting and mounted in purple velvet case. Possibly intended as a mourning object belonging to either his wife Hannah Hipkins (1819-1907) or his youngest son, Edwin Stephen (1849-1931). The design of the case, with integral stand, suggests it was an intimate keepsake intended for travelling. Edwin Rouse was the fourth child of Richard Rouse (1774-1852), builder of Rouse Hill House in the Parramatta district of New South Wales, and his wife Elizabeth Adams (1772-1849). Born five years after his parents emigrated to New South Wales, Edwin played a key role in the establishment of his fathers substantial pastoral holding west of the Blue Mountains, including the property Guntawang. Edwin remained west of the mountains until after the death of his father, marrying Hannah Hipkins in 1840 and residing at Guntawang with their five children. After the death of his father, the family relocated to Rouse Hill House in 1855.
Accession number
HR88/72
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