• Title
  [View of] Green Ponds, 15 May 1846 / Francis Russell Nixon
• Creator
  Francis-Russell Nixon, 1803-1879
• Call number
  DL Pe 134
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  15 May 1846
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  901332
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - on cream paper - 18.3 x 26.7 cm. Attached to paper mount
  
• Scope and Content
  A view, including the Midland Highway and Green Ponds Rivulet
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• General note
  
  Keyword subject:
  Green Ponds Rivulet (Tas.)
  Kempton (Tas.)
  Midland Highway (Tas.)
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned
  
  'Remembrance of / Bishop Nixon / 1847. (Tasmania)' is written in ink at bottom left corner of mount; also on mount, directly below view 'From the collection of Mme Jenny Lind', is written in pencil
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attribution to Nixon from note 'Van Dieman's Land / By the Bishop of Tasmania / 1848 London', written in pencil on back of mount
  
  It seems likely that Nixon took this drawing to England with him and there presented it to Jenny Lind
• Date note
  
  Date from title
• Conservation note
  
  Slightly foxed and soiled; mount foxed, creased and torn at edges, with remnants of paper on back from album page on which it was formerly stuck
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  views
  
• Place
  Tasmania
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8791822

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