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Print
923596
  • Title
    Newcastle, 1849 / albumen photographic copies of the watercolour panorama by John Rae
  • Creator
  • Call number
    SPF/2544
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1849, ca. 1870-1890
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    923596
  • Physical Description
    3 photographic prints (1 panorama) - 11.2 x 82.5 cm - albumen
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  • Related Material
  • General note

    Transferred from SPF/Newcastle, 1847 ? (BM), April 2011
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    "Photographs of my sketches" -- in pencil on the reverse of the third panel, possibly in Rae's hand

    "Probably by John Rae, see: New South Wales Commission of Melbourne Centennial Exhibition - Mr Rae's sketches, 1888, p.5 'a series of water-colour drawings ... views of Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong and the Upper Murray ... 6 in number and from 6 to 13 ft in length ... the view of Newcastle was sketched in 1847, from New Comber Street'" -- in pencil on the reverse of the third panel
  • Attributions / conjectures

    John Rae's signature on right hand lower corner of the original watercolour is not in the photograph
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