Mons. Vertelli, walking across the Mount Lofty Waterfall on a Wire, ca. 1865
Mons. Vertelli, walking across the Mount Lofty Waterfall on a Wire, ca. 1865
Mons. Vertelli, walking across the Mount Lofty Waterfall on a Wire, ca. 1865
About this item
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Date
ca. 1865
Call Numbers
SSV3B/M. Loft/1
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Physical Description
Contents
Drawings - 27.5 x 19 cm. - 1 ink & watercolour drawing
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Out of copyright
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Digitised
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Mons. Vertelli, walking across the Mount Lofty Waterfall on a Wire, ca. 1865
Notes
General note
The work is not signed. It appears to be a copy of or based on a work by W.A. Cawthorne.
Diagonally along the right hand edge in black ink appears, "Mount Lofty Waterfall". This was written by a former Mitchell Library Officer's hand to represent a former place of storage.
Digital order no:a4234001
Signature / Inscriptions
Titled on border beneath image, "Mons. Vertelli, walking across the Mount Lofty Waterfall on a Wire. / August. 24. 1865. / from a sketch by W.A. Cawthorne"
Contextual Information
Source
Transferred from SPF/Mount Lofty - Waterfall, October 1992
Administrative / Biographical history
Monsieur Vertelli, a high wire walker, crossed a rope above a waterfall at Mount Lofty in South Australia in 1865 and Sydneys Middle Harbor in 1877. -- Reference: "Theater in the Sky: Philippe Petit's Unique Art of Theatrical Highwire Performance", The Journal of American Culture, Vol.20 Issue 1. Online March 2005
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SSV3B/M. Loft/1
Record Identifier
9qoQ8LK1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9qoQ8LK1
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Reference code
404957
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