• Title
  Port Macquarie ca. 1840 / Joseph Backler
• Creator
  Joseph Backler, 1813-1895
• Call number
  ML 354
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, South Wall, no. 192
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1840
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  826215
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 25 1/2 x 37 1/2 in., framed 34 x 45 1/2 in.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Old wooden gilt label on frame reads 'Port Macquarie'.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed 'J.Backler' in lower right hand corner, incised into the paint layer (about 1 1/2 in. from right edge and 5/8 in. from bottom edge), visible with microscope or magnifiying glass.
• Date note
  
  Dated from comparison with HC Allport drawings of Port Macquarie of 1839 (ML PXD 86), which show the town in a similar state of development to this oil.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  towns
  
• Place
  Port Macquarie (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)

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