• Title
  Picnic at The Rocks, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Garrison Church and Lower Fort Street from Observatory Hill, 1952 by Roland Wakelin
• Creator
  Roland Wakelin, 1887-1971
• Call number
  ML 1169
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, North Wall, no. 64
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1952
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  152546
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 71 x 89.2 cm. - in wooden frame, 87 x 105 cm. (made by Jim Crofts Framing Studio, Bondi Junction, 1997)
  
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: Estate of Roland Wakelin
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Estate of Roland Wakelin
• General note
  
  Wakelin painted the Sydney Harbour Bridge in several major works, including two from the late-1920s (now in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Queensland Art Gallery (the latter sold at Sotheby's Fine Australian Paintings Sale, Melbourne, 22 August 1994, lot 120). A later work from a similar vantage point to 'Picnic at Ths Rocks' is dated 1958 and is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales (illus. in The Sydney Harbour Bridge 1932-1982: a golden anniversary celebration / Ursula Prunster. Sydney: Angus & Robertson in assoc. with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982, no. 39, p. 79)
  
  A photograph by Robert Pearce from a similar viewpoint appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April 1998, p. 3
  Digital order no:a1528074
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated in black brushpoint lower right 'R. Wakelin '52'
• Topic
  bridges
  picnics
  
• Place
  Holy Trinity Church (Millers Point, N.S.W.)
  Lower Fort Street (Dawes and Millers Point, N.S.W.)
  Observatory Hill (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Rocks, The (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour Bridge (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sydney Harbour : Seldom Scene - State Library of New South Wales (5 March - 27 March, 2007)
  Harbour Views - State Library of New South Wales (March, 2014 - October, 2014)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1100389

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