• Title
  In the Reading Room, [ca. 1931-1942] / Roland Shakespeare Wakelin
• Creator
  Roland Wakelin, 1887-1971
• Call number
  ML 1001
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, South Wall, no. 206
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca. 1931-1942]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  862462
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 53.7 x 70.8 cm
  
• Collection history
  The painting was sold at Christie, Manson & Woods Australia Ltd, 14 November 1988 to Simon Storey of ArtMet, Rene Rivkin's gallery. Source prior to that is unknown.
• Scope and Content
  View identified by David J. Jones as the Macquarie Street Reading Room, Public Library of New South Wales, Bent Street Building.
• 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
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Titled from Christie's Australia catalogue. Australian paintings and prints. Sydney, 14 November 1988, Lot 220.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed 'R. Wakelin' at lower right.
• Date note
  
  Undated. Approximately dated after comparison with N.H. Baker's Sydney Public Library ca. 1931 and from the closure date of the Bent Street building to the public. (Reference: Jones, D.J. A source of inspiration and delight. Sydney Library Council of N. S. W., 1988).
• Name
  Public Library of New South Wales
  
• Topic
  libraries
  reading rooms
  
• Place
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8954313

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