Street scene.

Alternative Title

Street scene looking towards the city.

Date Created

[ca. 1889]

Date

1889

Identifier

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 17,153
a10531

Description

Subject once thought to be a view in Dunedin, but now thought, by Margaret Taylor, to be a street in Ballarat, Australia. Title taken from work exhibited in the New Zealand & South Seas Exhibition Dunedin, 1889-90. panel is from cigar box.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]; verso in pencil: Nerli. Fisher; verso in chalk: FIS

Extent

140 x 225 mm (irregular)

Medium

oil on wood panel

Spatial Coverage

Ballarat (Vic.)
Australia

Temporal Coverage

Nineteenth century

Provenance

A.H. Fisher; Fisher estate; Hocken Library 1961. Bought from Harris’s auction, Dunedin, 1961.

Files

a10531.jpg

Citation

Nerli, Girolamo Pieri, 1860-1926, “Street scene.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed November 16, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/index.php/items/show/4545.