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Samuel Augustus Perry (1791 - 1854) View of the Valley of…
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Melbourne
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28-Jun-2016
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Samuel Augustus Perry (1791 - 1854) View of the Valley of Roseau, Dominica, watercolour on paper, signed and inscribed verso, 10.5 x 15 cm, 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) Sketched one morning before breakfast. Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's Fine Australian paintings, Melbourne, April 19, 1993, lot 138, formerly owned by Sandra McArthur Onslow of Canberra., Listed in the Mitchell Library small pictures catalogue., 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., 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.,
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