• Title
  View of Rossbank Observatory, Hobart, ca. 1849-1854 / attributed to Knut Bull
• Creator
  Knut Bull, 1811-1889
• Call number
  DG 339
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1849-1854
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  836255
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : DG 339
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 39 x 55 cm, sight, in gilded wooden frame 54 x 70 cm
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 433 and PXn 682 -
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• General note
  
  Titled from Hendrik Kolenberg identification of the buildings shown as Rossbank Observatory.
  Titled 'View of Hobart Town' and dated ca. 1800 in Sotheby's catalogue, 21 Apr. 1960, Lot 179.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned. 'Hobart' inscribed on back.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attributed to Knut Bull by Hendrik Kolenberg, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1986.
• Date note
  
  No date; dated from the earliest date Bull is known to have been in Hobart, and the date the present Government House, Hobart, near the site of Rossbank Ob seratory but not shown in the view, was built.
• Name
  Rossbank Magnetic Observatory
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  observatories
  
• Place
  Hobart (Tas.)
  

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