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• Auction House:
  Leonard Joel
• Sale Name:
  March Fine Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  24 Mar 2015 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  48
• Lot Description:
  George Rowe
  (1796-1864)
  First Metropolitan Gold Fields Handicap, Ballarat, Victoria 1861
  watercolour
  23 x 32cm
  dated lower left (under mount)
• Provenance:
  Christie's, Melbourne, 28 April 1999, lot 362; Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney; Private collection, Sydney; Thence by descent
• References:
  ...a fair show of pleasure-seeking||citizens, supplemented by Melbourne visitors,||crowded the numerous vehicles that plied for||passengers, and those who thus hied thither||wards under such discouraging circumstances,||were not wholly disappointed. Save one||short and not unpleasant shower, the day||was dry, cool, balmy, and excessively pleasant. The Star, Ballarat, "Program of the Ballarat Spring Races", 2 December 1858 (possibly the race depicted in this picture)
• Notes:
  We would like to thank Edith Fry at the Australiana Research Room at Ballarat Library for her assistance in researching this work.
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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