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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Colonial - Antique & Historial
• Sale Date:
  09 Nov 2015 ~ Session 1: 10.30am (Lots 501 - 815)
  09 Nov 2015 ~ Session 2: 2pm (Lots 816 - 1105)
• Lot #:
  973
• Lot Description:
  Samuel Augustus Perry
  (1791-1854)
  View of the Valley of Roseau, Dominica
  watercolour on paper
  10.5 x 15cm
  signed and inscribed verso; Inscribed verso: 'View of the Valley of Rousseau or Queen's River in the Island of Dominica with the cascade and mountain called Morne Verte. The columns of smoke near the right are Souffrieres. (Saufrieres = sulphur mines) Ske
• Provenance:
  Purchased Sotheby's Fine Australian paintings, Melbourne, April 19, 1993, lot 138, formerly owned by Sandra McArthur Onslow of Canberra.
• References:
  Listed in the Mitchell Library small pictures catalogue. Reference: Page 144, Illustrated colour pl.9 &, Perry, Soldier and Surveyor, Samuel Augustus Perry, 1791 - 1854 Deputy Surveyor General, New South Wales, Jillian Oppenheimer, printed by Ligare Pty., Ltd., 2009.
• Notes:
  Samuel Augustus Perry was a watercolourist, surveyor and soldier. Appointed deputy Surveyor-General of New South Wales, he arrived in Australia in 1829. Perry, with Captain William Dumaresq, was responsible for returning to Venice the four bronze horses of St Mark's which Napoleon had removed to Paris.
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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