Painting
Maker & role
Reverend Robert G Fraser (b.1832, d.1905), Artist
Production date
1869
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Object detail
Title
Untitled (Highland scene of dulse harvesting at low tide)
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Measurements
0 - Whole, H: 52.5 x W: 95.5cm (H: 525 x W: 955mm)
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Signature & marks
Registration number applied verso RHS
Credit line
Gift, NSW Department of Planning and Environment, 1987
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Untitled [Highland scene of dulse harvesting at low tide]. Rev. Robert G Fraser (1832-1905), Scotland, 1869.
Description
A framed oil painting of a coastal scene in the Scottish Highlands, proportioned approximately 1:2 height:width, and signed lower L.H.S. ‘R.G. Fraser 1869’. Damage across base of work with loss of paint, and to frame from past water damage.
The scene is at dusk; a Highland woman with her skirts hitched to keep them dry is standing on the shoreline waiting for an approaching rowboat. She has been gathering dulse, an edible seaweed, in a creel, a traditional curved woven basket which sits on the shore next to her. Dulse gathering was one of many romanticised scenes of Scottish Highland life depicted in artworks.
This is one of several paintings of Scottish scenes located in the back hall at Rouse Hill by the artist Rev. Robert G. Fraser. In July 1868 Bessie Buchanan (later Rouse) and her parents William and Elizabeth, who were then staying with Fraser’s father the Rev. Robert William Fraser in Edinburgh (Bessie and Robert William were cousins), visited an exhibition of his paintings. When the Buchanans left Britain Fraser Snr. wrote to his uncle following up on an offer he had made to take several of his son's views back to Australia with him, with the hope of promoting sales to other expatriate Scots. From 1868-88 Fraser exhibited 20 paintings in 13 shows at the Scottish Royal Academy, all of Scottish landscapes.
The scene is at dusk; a Highland woman with her skirts hitched to keep them dry is standing on the shoreline waiting for an approaching rowboat. She has been gathering dulse, an edible seaweed, in a creel, a traditional curved woven basket which sits on the shore next to her. Dulse gathering was one of many romanticised scenes of Scottish Highland life depicted in artworks.
This is one of several paintings of Scottish scenes located in the back hall at Rouse Hill by the artist Rev. Robert G. Fraser. In July 1868 Bessie Buchanan (later Rouse) and her parents William and Elizabeth, who were then staying with Fraser’s father the Rev. Robert William Fraser in Edinburgh (Bessie and Robert William were cousins), visited an exhibition of his paintings. When the Buchanans left Britain Fraser Snr. wrote to his uncle following up on an offer he had made to take several of his son's views back to Australia with him, with the hope of promoting sales to other expatriate Scots. From 1868-88 Fraser exhibited 20 paintings in 13 shows at the Scottish Royal Academy, all of Scottish landscapes.
Accession number
R89/21
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