• Title
  Mons. Vertelli, walking across the Mount Lofty Waterfall on a Wire, ca. 1865
• Call number
  SSV3B/M. Loft/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1865
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  404957
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 ink & watercolour drawing - 27.5 x 19 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Monsieur Vertelli, a high wire walker, crossed a rope above a waterfall at Mount Lofty in South Australia in 1865 and Sydneys Middle Harbor in 1877. -- Reference: "Theater in the Sky: Philippe Petit's Unique Art of Theatrical Highwire Performance", The Journal of American Culture, Vol.20 Issue 1. Online March 2005
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The work is not signed. It appears to be a copy of or based on a work by W.A. Cawthorne.
  Diagonally along the right hand edge in black ink appears, "Mount Lofty Waterfall". This was written by a former Mitchell Library Officer's hand to represent a former place of storage.
  Digital order no:a4234001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on border beneath image, "Mons. Vertelli, walking across the Mount Lofty Waterfall on a Wire. / August. 24. 1865. / from a sketch by W.A. Cawthorne"
• Topic
  rocks (landscape)
  tightrope-walkers
  waterfalls
  
• Place
  Lofty, Mount (S. Aust.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3140683

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