• Title
  [View of house in a bay], 1853 / John R. Roberts
• Creator
  John Rider Roberts, c. 1820-1868
• Call number
  SV*/Art/88
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1853
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  446229
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour drawing - 20.3 x 43.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John R. Roberts was a landscape painter, surveyor, and architect who contributed many topographical drawings to the publication, "Illustrated Sydney News". -- Reference: Dictionary of Australian Artists / by Joan Kerr. Melb, Vic : Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Scope and Content
  Three men and a dog are placed in the foreground of a bay with a view of a large house on a rocky outcrop to the left. In the distance are a sailing ship and a building to the right.
• General note
  
  Possibly view of bay in Sydney Harbour.
  Provenance of item derived from a list of material that was deposited with the National Art Gallery (Art Gallery of N.S.W.), prior to the Mitchell Library's opening in 1910.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed at dated at in ink at lower right, "John R. Roberts 1853?"
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  bays
  boats
  houses
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8813940

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