• Title
  [A family group with canoe, possibly near Clovelly House, Watsons Bay], 1886 / painted by William Pitt Wilshire
• Creator
  William Pitt Wilshire, 1807-1889
• Call number
  ML 569
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, West Wall, no. 16
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1886
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  455884
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on board - image 46 x 61 cm. in plantation timber frame 49 x 64 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title devised by Curator, Research & Discovery, August 2018.
• Variant title
  
  
• General note
  
  At PXn 602 is a photograph of the original ink inscriptions on the back of the canvas, which were covered when the painting was laid onto masonite. At the lower left is 'W.P. Wilshire / pinx. 1886. / AEtat 78." At lower right is "Aborigines of Queensland / from a Photograph." At lower centre is a label pasted onto the canvas which is addressed to the Trustees of the Mitchell Library, as a direction for the painting's donation to the Library. The label, from Mrs John Bibb, of Mosman, is dated "3.9.19" or 3 September 1919.
  
  Digital order no:a928887
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  children
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  bush
  bush huts
  oars
  rowing boats
  
• Place
  Clovelly (N.S.W.)
  Watsons Bay (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9487963

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