• Title
  [Explorers on riverbank, 190-? / by John Samuel Watkins]
• Creator
  J. S. (John Samuel) Watkins, 1866-1942
• Call number
  ML 1485
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, West Wall, no. 25
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [190-?]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  1001640
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - semicircular image 33.0 x 88.0 cm, in frame 57.0 x 101 cm
  
• Collection history
  Painting previously offered for sale on 29 October 1987 at Sotheby's, Fine Australian Paintings, Books and Manuscripts, Sydney, Lot 288, Savill Galleries
• Scope and Content
  Oil painting, semi-circular in shape, in a gilt rectangular frame probably of a group of explorers on a river bank.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title taken from Menzies, The Stock In-trade of Savill Galleries, Melbourne, 22 September 2016, Lot 352
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned.
  Labels attached verso of painting: "Menzies. Artist: John Samuel Watkins. Title: Explorers on Riverbank. Lot 352. Sale: 22/9/2016. Stock No.2440" (Top right corner); "[DS] Watkins, John Samuel. Explorers. Oil on Canvas 32 x 87 cm" (top left corner); "Charles Hewitt Frames Pty Ltd" (bottom centre)
  Signed on verso: "DS 327" (top left corner) and "GM 187" (top right corner)
• Date note
  
  Dated by Mitchell Librarian, September 2016
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  river banks
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8953060

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