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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 #:
  989
• Lot Description:
  Samuel Augustus Perry
  (1791-1854)
  St. Thomas Church, Port Macquarie, circa 1831
  watercolour on paper
  13 x 18cm
  unsigned. Note: Samuel Perry's Journal for Sunday December 19 states: 'Went to Church, which is large enough to hold five times the present congregation. It is substantially built and well proportioned but very properly no attempt at Architectural display
• References:
  Page 144, Illustrated colour pls.28 & 29, Perry, Soldier and Surveyor, Samuel Augustus Perry, 1791 - 1854 Deputy Suveyor 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$4,000 - 6,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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