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Print
446328
  • Title
    [River scenes - two watercolour drawings]
  • Call number
    V1B/Wgmb R/1
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1881
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    446328
  • Issue Copy
    Copy print : V1B/Wgmb R/1
    Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  • Physical Description
    Drawings - 2 watercolour drawings mounted together on card - 27.5 x 19.9 cm.
  • Scope and Content
    1. [Man fishing with castle in the distance] / Frier
    2. [Warragamba River], 1881 / R.M.
  • General note

    Two unrelated drawings are mounted together.
    The works are not titled. No.1 is not dated.
    On mount beneath images are non-contemporaneous pencil inscriptions giving titles as "Scene by Frier" and "Warragamba River [by] Ruby Martens. 1881"
    No.2 The attribution of "R.M." to "Ruby Martens" has not been substantiated.
    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

    No.1 is signed, "Frier"
    No.2 is initialled and dated, "R.M. / 1881"
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