[Explorers on riverbank, 190-? / by John Samuel Watkins]
[Explorers on riverbank, 190-? / by John Samuel Watkins]
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
[190-?]
Call Numbers
ML 1485 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, West Wall, no. 25
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Physical Description
Contents
1 painting - semicircular image 33.0 x 88.0 cm, in frame 57.0 x 101 cm - oil on canvas
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
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Oil painting, semi-circular in shape, in a gilt rectangular frame probably of a group of explorers on a river bank.
Alternative Titles
Full title
[Explorers on riverbank, 190-? / by John Samuel Watkins]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Unsigned.
Labels attached verso of painting: "Menzies. Artist: John Samuel Watkins. Title: Explorers on Riverbank. Lot 352. Sale: 22/9/2016. Stock No.2440" (Top right corner); "[DS] Watkins, John Samuel. Explorers. Oil on Canvas 32 x 87 cm" (top left corner); "Charles Hewitt Frames Pty Ltd" (bottom centre)
Signed on verso: "DS 327" (top left corner) and "GM 187" (top right corner)...
Date note
Dated by Mitchell Librarian, September 2016
Reference:
Library correspondence file
Description source
Title taken from Menzies, The Stock In-trade of Savill Galleries, Melbourne, 22 September 2016, Lot 352
Object History
Painting previously offered for sale on 29 October 1987 at Sotheby's, Fine Australian Paintings, Books and Manuscripts, Sydney, Lot 288, Savill Galleries
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Menzies, The Stock In-trade of Savill Galleries, Melbourne, 22 September 2016, Lot 352.
Exhibited in
- Paintings from the Collection
State Library of New South Wales (2018)
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ML 1485 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, West Wall, no. 25
Record Identifier
YzOmq0M9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YzOmq0M9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1001640
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