ID: 700001812 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001812	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Tess (painting (visual work); James McLachlan Nairn (Scottish painter, 1859-1904, active i...; 1893; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Welling...; 1939-0001-1)

Note: The model for the painting Tess was reputed to be Alice Jones, aged 16, at her father's farm in Pauahatanui, New Zealand. The artist, James M. Nairn, proposed to her when she was 18, but she rejected him as being, at 36, too old. By calling his painting "Tess," Nairn has recast her as the eponymous heroine of Thomas Hardy's novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," imbuing her with the pastoral innocence of the central character early in the novel.

Titles:

Tess (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1893

Creator Display:

James McLachlan Nairn (Scottish painter, 1859-1904, active in New Zealand) [preferred,VP]

painter Nairn, James McLachlan (Scottish painter, 1859-1904, active in New Zealand) [500066981]

Locations:

Current: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand) [500311561] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1939-0001-1

Credit Line: Gift of John Newton and Son, Kaiwharawhara, 1939

Creation: Wellington [7001775] Wellington (region (administrative division)), New Zealand (nation), Oceania (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: Image: 1220 (Height) x 1518 (Width) x mm; Frame: 1362 (Height) x 1674 (Width) x 54 (Depth) mm

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	cattle [300250116]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Artiodactyla (order), Bovidae (family)) (AAT)

	d'Urbervilles, Tess [901000382]
	.....((Literary characters, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	sunlight [300056028]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), scientific concepts, physical sciences concepts, physics concepts, <energy and related concepts>, energy, radiation (energy), electromagnetic radiation, light (energy), daylight) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Tess	........ [VP,TePapa]
	........ Te Papa online (2000-) http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=42046; accessed 21 August 2012
	........ Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Subject: ....... [VP,TePapa]

....................... Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Te Papa online (2000-) http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=42046; accessed 21 August 2012