INTERIOR OLD BARN

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BARKER, John

1929

Overview

Point of view style watercolour on paper showing the interior of a derelict building on the Strawberry Hill Farm site in Albany in 1929.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-51-V1991.12

Item type

Artworks

Themes

Art and Design

Width

380 mm

Height or length

270 mm

Inscriptions and markings

J. Barker 1929

In pencil on the original mount to this work "Interior of Old Barn Middleton Rd Built by Sir Richard Spencer -circa 1834-"

Contextual information

This rare rendering of the interior of this very early colonial era building in its original form, one of three in the AHS collection by the artist John Barker, addresses a similar theme using the same style and palette. see V1994.1-OLD COLONIAL BUSH SHED ALBANY, V1994.10-OLD COTTAGE PERTH ROAD, ALBANY

Keywords

ILLUSTRATION

Watercolour

Building

Place made

Albany, Western Australia, Australia

Year

1929

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Comparative significance criteria

Rare or representative