Fowler Pottery, Camperdown, 1865 [picture] / John Rider Roberts
- Bib ID:
- 5753942
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Roberts, J. R., active 1853?-1857
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1865
- 1 painting : watercolour ; image 25 x 42.6 cm., on sheet 27.4 x 44.8 cm.
- Summary:
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"The business is depicted as thriving in the watercolour, with workers in the midst of carrying out their daily task, fire bricks, tiles, chimney pots and an array of pottery items shown in all stages of production; and smoke from the kiln billowing above."--Information from acquisitions documentation.
- Biography/History:
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"The Fowler pottery business produced ginger bear bottles, jars and clay pipes at Parramatta Street. In 1848 the pottery business moved to Glebe and in the 1850s relocated to a five acre site at the corner of Parramatta Road and Australia Street, Camperdown."--Information from reference source.
- Notes:
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- Title from from acquisitions documentation, see file NLA11/2659
- Inscriptions: "John R. Roberts 1865"--Lower right.
- Condition: Tears and yellowing.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138089940
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased 2011.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1857
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1865
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