• Title
  Bobbin Head / Halpern
• Creator
  Frederick Hans Halpern
• Call number
  SV/352
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  after 5 September 1951
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  9599436
• Physical Description
  1 print - 23.4 x 32.3cm - aquatint, colour
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Frederick Hans Halpern, writer and artist, was born in Vienna, Austria in 1909. He travelled widely from the age of 19, making sketches and etchings of the places he visited. He arrived in Australia in 1951 and in 1956 he became a British-naturalised citizen based in Melbourne.
  
  References:
  'Certificates of Naturalization'. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, 6 June 1957. Accessed 23 September 2020. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/25097852
  Halpern, Frederick Hans. 'The endless journey : an eastern odyssey'. Elms Court : Arthur H. Stockwell, 1983.
  'Frederick Halpern'. Australian and New Zealand Art Sales Digest. Accessed 22 September 2020
  'Travelled world by etching'. Examiner (Launceston), 9 March 1951, page 4. Accessed 22 September 2020. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/4682706
  
• Scope and Content
  Colour aquatint showing a view of Bobbin Head, including the picnic area, people, buses, cars and buildings, as well as boats on Cowan Creek, a tributary to the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales.
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Description source
  
  Title, signature and edition number in colour pencil in lower margin
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed 'Halpern'
• Version / edition note
  
  3/25
• Date note
  
  Date based on Halpern's diary entry for 5 September 1951 which describes a visit to Bobbin Head
• Subject
  Recreation areas--New South Wales.
  Rivers--New South Wales.
  
• Place
  Bobbin Head (N.S.W.)
  Cowan Creek (N.S.W.)
  Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park (N.S.W.)
  Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20614218

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