North Coast Steam Navigation Company, unidentified portrait, ca. 1864
North Coast Steam Navigation Company, unidentified portrait, ca. 1864
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1864
Call Numbers
P4/29
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 71 x 56 cm - watercolour, gouache and gum arabic
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Scope and Contents
Contents
The painting is lined with a sheet of newspaper "Printed and published by the proprietor Richard Stevenson, at the Clarence and Richmond Examiner Office, Prince-Street, North Grafton, Tuesday, May 17th, 1864"
Alternative Titles
Full title
North Coast Steam Navigation Company, unidentified portrait, ca. 1864
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
"We have no record of this painting but it could be associated with the Clarence River, as it will be noted newspaper lining at back bears date May 17th 1864 of paper published at Grafton" -- note on reverse of painting.
Transferred from P3/Unidentified, July 2012
Attributions / Conjectures
Possibly the work of Conrad Wagner (ca. 1818-1910). From the early 1860s Wagner worked as a painter and photographer at a studio in Prince Street, Grafton.
See [Portrait of Johann Georg Lollbach] / watercolour by Conrad Wagner, 1869 (DG 414) and [Portrait of Magdalena Lollbach, wife of Johann Georg Lollbach] / watercolour by Conrad Wagner,...
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by North Coast Steam Navigation Company, November 1954
Pic.Acc.2768
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
P4/29
Record Identifier
16AJr3gn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AJr3gn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
982576
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