Artist unknown :St George's Bay & the railway wharf. 15/9/86 [1886]

Shows a view across St George's Bay to a wharf in the distance with the masts of numerous sailing ships moored thereto. At the land end of the wharf is a building with a smoking chimney, and there are houses to the shore side of that building.

The artist's logo or symbol (a vase, a money bag or an inverted scallop shell with a blue shadow to its right) is at lower left.

In 2010 the Library bought four works out of an offered group of 14 by this artist who uses a distinctive logo. Apart from the purchased four, the rest showed scenes of Kawau, native forest, a swamp at Waitoa (Waikato), an iron sand beach on the West Coast (North Island).

Attribution: the Auckland artist Charles Palmer used a scallop shell as his logo, but in a different form from this one, shown upright, and with a staff behind it. It is possible that this group of watercolours is the work of Charles Palmer, but not certain

Other Titles - 15 September 1886

Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).

Physical Description: Watercolour, 137 x 220 mm.

Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, July 2010.