• Title
  Item 07: [Pastoral scenes, ca. 1920s] / by B.E. Minns
• Call number
  SV/279
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1920s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1025632
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  2 drawings (1 sheet) - watercolour, pencil - 26.6 x 36.0 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Benjamin Edwin Minns, (1864-1937), born in Dungog, NSW was introduced to art by the young Charles Conder, with whom he shared rooms in Sydney in the 1880s. Minns soon developed a successful career as the first significant freelance Bulletin cartoonist. He is also known for his sensitive watercolours.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  Finished pastoral scene featuring cattle grazing and resting in a pasture under a large tree in the foreground, with buildings and hills in the background. Unfinished pastoral landscape on verso with resting cattle in the left foreground and a shed in the right midground, with hills in the background.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1027170
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed lower left on both sides of sheet
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Minns, B. E., 1864-1937
  
• Subject
  Artists, Australian--20th century.
  Artists, Aboriginal Australian--19th century
  Landscape painters--Australia.
  
• Topic
  cattle
  hills
  trees
  pastures
  landscapes (artwork)
  watercolours
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3289007

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