IMAGE
[Ashworth, Edward] 1814-1896 :Batavia. [1844]
- Date
- 1844
- By
- Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896
- Reference
- A-207-001
- Description
View from a river or canal, a junk in the water and three women washing clothes, looking towards a road with a horse-drawn carriage, a soldier on horseback and buildings surrounded by trees. Batavia was the earlier European name for Djakarta.
Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001.
Sketched on Ashworth's voyage from Sydney to China, before he returned to England
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour 110 x 188 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour 110 x 188 mm
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