The mystery of the missing James Coutts Crawford watercolours of Glebe, Sydney c 1845, Robert Hannan & Peter Crawshaw

Vol 42 no 3, August 2020
Article from Vol 42 no 3, August 2020

The mystery of the missing James Coutts Crawford watercolours of Glebe, Sydney c 1845, Robert Hannan & Peter Crawshaw

Abstract:

The authors are seeking to locate a number of watercolours painted by amateur artist James Coutts Crawford, who lived in Australia in the late 1830s and 1840s, especially his views of early settlement on the Glebe peninsula. Then an Arcadian rural retreat, Glebe is now a densely settled inner Sydney suburb, but retains the picturesque water views that attracted Crawford the artist.

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