Adlib Internet Server 5

Select

844517

Title
Item 2: The Bridge at Parramatta, ca. 1940s / Robert Johnson
Call number
ML 968
Level of description
item
Date

ca. 1940s
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Paintings
Reference code
844517
Issue Copy
Copy print : ML 968
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
Physical Description
1 painting - oil on board - 38.2 x 45.6 cm : frame 50.5 x 58.3 cm
Collection history
Estate of Sir Erik Langker (Library correspondence file)
Access Conditions

Access via appointment
Copying Conditions
Copyright restrictions may apply
Description source

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.

Approximately dated and titled by donor.
General note

Original frame.
Signatures / Inscriptions

Signed 'Robert Johnson', lower right.
'Morning light/Roclands' inscribed in pencil on verso; 'Parramatta' inscribed in pencil on fixing tape.
An ownership label '...Erik Langker...' is pasted on back of frame, upper centre.
Attributions / conjectures

The specific location depicted has not yet been identified; the bridge depicted does not appear to be Lennox Bridge compared with V1B/Parr/16, SSV1B/Len B/1 and 'Australian architects and their work', 2nd ed., Sydney : A &R, 1970, figs. 87, 75, p. 165, 143.
Creator/Author/Artist
Johnson, Robert, 1890-1964
Subject
Painting, Australian--20th century
Topic
bridges
landscapes (views)
towns
Place
Parramatta (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works.
Lennox Bridge (Parramatta, N.S.W.)

Details