[Mounted police with settlers and Aborigines, Tooloom, NSW] / by Conrad Wagner, 1860
[Mounted police with settlers and Aborigines, Tooloom, NSW] / by Conrad Wagner, 1860
[Mounted police with settlers and Aborigines, Tooloom, NSW] / by Conrad Wagner, 1860
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Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1860
Call Numbers
SSV/149
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Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 22.0 x 28.0 cm. - watercolour on paper
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Watercolour on paper, 1860, depicting three uniformed men on horseback in conversation with two plain clothed men, probably miners. One of the miners is handing a piece of paper to the officer on horseback. This may be a mining license. The central figure is an unidentified mounted police officer, possibly the Sergeant of the Gold Police, who looks...
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Full title
[Mounted police with settlers and Aborigines, Tooloom, NSW] / by Conrad Wagner, 1860
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Object History
Private collection, London. Private collection, Melbourne
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Deutscher & Hackett at auction in Melbourne, 29 November 2017.
Administrative / Biographical history
Conrad Wagner was a German born painter and photographer, arriving in Australia in 1856 and settling in Grafton on the Clarence River. For ten years from the early 1860s, Wagner worked at a studio in Grafton, advertising cartes-de-visite 'tastefully shaded off around’ and portraits. In the early 1870s, the studio won a considerable reputation for...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SSV/149
Record Identifier
1JkPARDY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1JkPARDY
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Reference code
9588582
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