• Title
  Collection 03: View of part of Hawkesbury River at 1st fall and connection with Grose River N.S. Wales, 1809 / watercolour by George William Evans?
• Creator
  George William Evans, 1780-1852
• Call number
  SV/123
  
• Level of description
  sub-fonds
• Date
  
  1809
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  446992
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour - 21.6 x 37.8 cm.
  
• Collection history
  This watercolour was offered in Sotheby's [London] Catalogue of Sporting Prints, Views and other coloured prints, 16 July 1963, Lot 127. It was part of seven lots, ‘the property of Mrs H.D. Banning’ a descendant of Mrs Elizabeth Paterson (1760?-1839), wife of soldier, explorer and lieutenant-governor, William Paterson (1755-1810). Australian art historian Rex Rienits purchased this painting along with Lot 126 `A View near Grose Head, New South Wales, 1809’ Reference: Anne-Maree Whitaker "Mrs Paterson's keepsakes: the provenance of some significant colonial documents and paintings", Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol.90, no.2. p.136-151.
• Scope and Content
  Depicts the area of confluence of the Nepean, Hawkesbury and Grose Rivers. This junction marks the head water of the Hawkesbury River. It possibly depicts the Nepean River, very near its entrance to the Hawkesbury.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
• General note
  
  Unsigned. Attributed by ML Curator of Pictures
  Titled and dated from handwritten pencil inscription on original backing board
  Further notes on George William Evans, by John Hawkins, held at PXn 953
  Digital order no:a1528265
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  country scenes
  dogs
  farm buildings
  huts
  rivers
  
• Place
  Grose River (N.S.W.)
  Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.)
  Nepean River (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3317954

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