Hampden Avenue, Darling Point, 1896 / watercolour drawing by WBS [Walter Brookes Spong]
Hampden Avenue, Darling Point, 1896 / watercolour drawing by WBS [Walter Brookes Spong]
Hampden Avenue, Darling Point, 1896 / watercolour drawing by WBS [Walter Brookes Spong]
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1896
Call Numbers
SV/335
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 25 x 35.5 cm. - watercolour
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
This watercolour painted by Walter Brookes Spong shows the steeple of St Marks Anglican church as the focus in the middle distance leading from the curving leafy road below of Hampden Avenue in Darling Point, Sydney in the late 1800s.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Hampden Avenue, Darling Point, 1896 / watercolour drawing by WBS [Walter Brookes Spong]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Initialled, 'WBS'.
On verso of watercolour: 'Hamden [Hampden] Avenue, Darling Point 1896. Mrs Simpson 1/2" brown bead, wgton [?] deco ...'
Description source
Titled, initialled and dated in lower left of watercolour.
Object History
From donor, last sold in 1987 at Gray Auctioneers.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Day Fine Art, February 2017
Administrative / Biographical history
Walter Brookes Spong (1851-1929) was an English artist and stage painter who moved to Australia in 1886. He was a friend of Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts and was one the founders of the Australian Artist's Association and the Victorian Art Society.
His works are represented in the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, the Art Gallery of New S...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SV/335
Record Identifier
9ALZZo5Y
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9ALZZo5Y
Other Identifiers
Reference code
9605518
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