Item 02: King William street, Adelaide, ca. 1845 / possibly by S.T Gill or E.L. Montefiore
Item 02: King William street, Adelaide, ca. 1845 / possibly by S.T Gill or E.L. Montefiore
Item 02: King William street, Adelaide, ca. 1845 / possibly by S.T Gill or E.L. Montefiore
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1845
Call Numbers
SSV*/Sp Coll/Gill/2
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 watercolour - 4 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
This watercolour is one of three in the same style, the other two being Frome Bridge, Adelaide and Port Adelaide, South Australia. The paper of the three is the same and that of the Port Adelaide view shows the watermark date 1845
Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 02: King William street, Adelaide, ca. 1845 / possibly by S.T Gill or E.L. Montefiore
Notes
General note
Keyword subject:
Grenfell Street (Adelaide, S. Aust)
Copy Print available at SSV*/Sp Coll/Gill/2
Digital order no:a6323001
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed 'STG' but the signature could be spurious
Title in pencil below picture within a pencil line
A pencil sketch of the main buildings shown in the picture with inscriptions 'My store', ',My dwelling', both signed 'ELM'.
Attributions / Conjectures
'ELM' could be E.L. Montefiore who was a merchant in King William street ca. 1846-9, see covering card under Montefiore.
An examination of sketchbooks in Mitchell Library attributed to him did not prove conclusive. See also notes by K.T. Borrow, 1953, A4002, p.3
Mr Pitt (Public Library South Australia) identified the side street as Grenfell...
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Francis Edwards, April 1934
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SSV*/Sp Coll/Gill/2
Record Identifier
Yoldj2E9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yoldj2E9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
840386
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