• Title
  Collection 04: A View near Grose Head, New South Wales, 1809 / watercolour by George William Evans
• Creator
  George William Evans, 1780-1852
• Call number
  SV/143
  
• Level of description
  sub-fonds
• Date
  
  1809
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  457813
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour - 27.6 x 37 cm.
  
• Collection history
  This watercolour was offered in Sotheby's [London] Catalogue of Sporting Prints, Views and other coloured prints, 16 July 1963, Lot 126. 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 127 ‘View of part of Hawkesbury River at 1st fall and connection with Grose River N.S. 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
  Probably depicts the Grose River situated near the base of Grose Head, at the first significant set of boulders near the junction of the river with Burralow Creek. If so, the eminence in the middle of the watercolour is Paterson Hill.
  An early interpretation of a wild colonial landscape as a work of art, it is perhaps the earliest surviving depiction of a Blue Mountains view.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Titled and dated from handwritten ink inscription on the reverse of the watercolour. This inscription is in an identical hand to those on the reverse of PXD 388, a volume of watercolours by J.W. Lewin, G.W. Evans etc, which appears to have been commissioned by William Paterson.
  Backing paper removed from watercolour by Preservation (Oct 2007)
  
  Further notes on George William Evans, by John Hawkins, held at PXn 953
  Digital order no:Album ID : 861637
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned
  "A View near Grose Head / New South Wales 1809. / by G.W. Evans" -- in ink in a contemporary hand on the reverse
  "Near Grose Head New South Wales / 1809" -- in ink on the backing paper
  "George William Evans (1775-1852)" -- in blue biro on the backing paper
• Subject
  Art, Australian--19th century.
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  bush
  cliffs
  colonial art
  country scenes
  fishing (pastime)
  mountains
  rapids
  river valleys
  rivers
  rocks (landscape)
  
• Place
  Grose River (N.S.W.)
  Grose River Valley (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary - State Library of New South Wales (9 March - 16 June, 2010)
  Lewin: Wild Art - State Library of New South Wales (March, 2012 - October, 2012)
  Crossing the Blue Mountains - State Library of New South Wales (May, 2013 - August, 2013)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3314307

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