Drawing
Maker & role
Bessie Rouse (b.1843, d.1924), Attributed Artist/Maker
Production date
circa 1876
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Object detail
Title
Untitled (Fishing boat)
Production place
Collection
Measurements
0 - Whole, H: 37.5 x W: 47.5 x D: 2.2cm (H: 375 x W: 475 x D: 22mm)
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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 [Pencil drawing of a beached fishing boat]. Bessie Rouse (attributed), ca1876.
Description
Attributed to Bessie Rouse this pencil drawing is of a beached fishing boat - a gaff-rigged sloop - with 5 crew on deck who look towards the viewer. Fishing nets are drawn up over the side. The tide is half out, and the boat rests on the sand, moored by a taut rope. In the far distance are cliffsides reminiscent of Dover. A comparison can be made to the similarly beached boat in R88/36-1:2 .
The back has the remains of a paper label for ‘Robert Smith, Carver, Glider, and Picture-frame Maker, 175 and 113, Clarence-street, (late of York-street)’. Smith died suddenly on December 12, 1976 and his business was dissolved afterwards, which may date the picture but does not preclude the frame having been reused. It is possible that the artwork was created as part of the decoration of the house’s new nursery.
Unsigned, the work is attributed to Bessie Rouse [nee Buchanan, 1843 - 1924 m. Edwin Stephen Rouse]. Bessie Rouse was a keen amateur painter, whose many surviving artworks at Rouse Hill are dominated by Scottish and Irish views that evoke the ancestry of the Buchanan family. In the 1870s Bessie created a studio space in an enclosure between the main house and service wing that was as much a genteel sitting room as practical painting space.
The back has the remains of a paper label for ‘Robert Smith, Carver, Glider, and Picture-frame Maker, 175 and 113, Clarence-street, (late of York-street)’. Smith died suddenly on December 12, 1976 and his business was dissolved afterwards, which may date the picture but does not preclude the frame having been reused. It is possible that the artwork was created as part of the decoration of the house’s new nursery.
Unsigned, the work is attributed to Bessie Rouse [nee Buchanan, 1843 - 1924 m. Edwin Stephen Rouse]. Bessie Rouse was a keen amateur painter, whose many surviving artworks at Rouse Hill are dominated by Scottish and Irish views that evoke the ancestry of the Buchanan family. In the 1870s Bessie created a studio space in an enclosure between the main house and service wing that was as much a genteel sitting room as practical painting space.
Accession number
R78/4
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