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982576
  • Title
    North Coast Steam Navigation Company, unidentified portrait, ca. 1864
  • Call number
    P4/29
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    ca. 1864
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    982576
  • Physical Description
    1 drawing - watercolour, gouache and gum arabic - 71 x 56 cm
  • Scope and Content
    The painting is lined with a sheet of newspaper "Printed and published by the proprietor Richard Stevenson, at the Clarence and Richmond Examiner Office, Prince-Street, North Grafton, Tuesday, May 17th, 1864"
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • General note

    "We have no record of this painting but it could be associated with the Clarence River, as it will be noted newspaper lining at back bears date May 17th 1864 of paper published at Grafton" -- note on reverse of painting.

    Transferred from P3/Unidentified, July 2012
  • Attributions / conjectures

    Possibly the work of Conrad Wagner (ca. 1818-1910). From the early 1860s Wagner worked as a painter and photographer at a studio in Prince Street, Grafton.

    See [Portrait of Johann Georg Lollbach] / watercolour by Conrad Wagner, 1869 (DG 414) and [Portrait of Magdalena Lollbach, wife of Johann Georg Lollbach] / watercolour by Conrad Wagner, 1869 (DG 415)
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