• Title
  Harvest time / R. Read
• Creator
  Richard Read, approximately 1765-1827?
• Call number
  ML 1577
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1817
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  9662520
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - on card - 15.2 x 17.8 cm, in wooden frame, 22.2 x 24.6 x 2 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  British-born artist Richard Read arrived in Sydney in 1813, having been sentenced in London to transportation for 14 years, convicted of forgery. His son, Richard Read Junior, also an artist, emigrated in 1819. After being granted a ticket of leave, he advertised in the Sydney Gazette (26 November 1814) that he was opening a drawing school at 37 Pitt Street, and offered to make drawings for embroidery and needlework and take miniatures and portraits. Attracting wealthy clientele of the day, he became known for his portraits of prominent colonial figures including Governor Macquarie, the Johnston and Marsden families and Barron Field.
  
  References:
  Library correspondence file
• Collection history
  Offered for sale by the vendor from a private collection, United Kingdom.
• Scope and Content
  Attributed to Richard Read Senior. Watercolour on board showing a seated woman and child, and a male farmer holding a scythe in a rural setting.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated ‘R Read 1817’ in brown ink at lower right.
  Inscribed on remaining backing paper: ‘Drawn by R.Read 1807 Signed on Right corner’
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  The work was initially described as an Australian scene, possibly Liverpool or Moorebank, by Richard Read Senior. However, after further investigation, it is believed that the work is more likely a rural genre scene, possibly copied from an English print, or at least drawing heavily on the tropes of that genre, rather than an illustration of a particular Australian location. Stylistically, the work appears to be in keeping with Richard Read Senior.
  
  Reference:
  Information supplied by Mitchell Librarian, November 2021
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Landscapes--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20524270

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