• Title
  Item 06: [Lagoon scene, ca. 1920s] / by B.E. Minns
• Call number
  SV/278
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1920s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1025631
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 27.9 x 38.8 cm - watercolour
  
• 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
  Scene depicts a lagoon and shore in the foreground, with several houses and trees in the midground and hill 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:a8004001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed lower left
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Minns, B. E., 1864-1937
  
• Subject
  Artists, Australian--19th century.
  Artists, Australian--20th century.
  Landscape painters--Australia.
  
• Topic
  houses
  trees
  hills
  lagoons
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3289456

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