• Title
  Item 02: King William street, Adelaide, ca. 1845 / possibly by S.T Gill or E.L. Montefiore
• Call number
  SSV*/Sp Coll/Gill/2
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1845
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  840386
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 4 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.
  
• Scope and Content
  This watercolour is one of three in the same style, the other two being Frome Bridge, Adelaide and Port Adelaide, South Australia. The paper of the three is the same and that of the Port Adelaide view shows the watermark date 1845
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• General note
  
  Keyword subject:
  Grenfell Street (Adelaide, S. Aust)
  
  Copy Print available at SSV*/Sp Coll/Gill/2
  Digital order no:a6323001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed 'STG' but the signature could be spurious
  Title in pencil below picture within a pencil line
  A pencil sketch of the main buildings shown in the picture with inscriptions 'My store', ',My dwelling', both signed 'ELM'.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  'ELM' could be E.L. Montefiore who was a merchant in King William street ca. 1846-9, see covering card under Montefiore.
  An examination of sketchbooks in Mitchell Library attributed to him did not prove conclusive. See also notes by K.T. Borrow, 1953, A4002, p.3
  Mr Pitt (Public Library South Australia) identified the side street as Grenfell Street
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  
• Topic
  roads & streets
  store buildings
  houses
  horses
  settlements
  horsedrawn carts
  
• Place
  King William Street (Adelaide, S. Aust.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3317112

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