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SAMUEL AUGUSTUS PERRY (1791-1854)
View of the Valley of Roseau, Dominica
watercolour
signed and inscribed verso: S A Perry / View of the Valley of Rousseau or Queen's River in the Island of Dominica with the cascade and mountain called Morne Verte. / The columns of smoke near the right are Souffrieres. / Sketched one morning before breakfast.
10.5 x 15 cm

PROVENANCE
Sotheby's, Fine Australian Paintings, Melbourne, April 19 1993, Lot 138
Sandra McArthur Onslow, Canberra

REFERENCE
Jillian Oppenheimer, Perry Soldier and Surveyor, Samuel Augustus Perry, 1791-1854 Deputy Surveyor General, New South Wales, Deputy Surveyor General, New South Wales, printed by Ligare Pty., Ltd., 2009, page 145, Illustrated colour pl.9

NOTE
Samuel Augustus Perry was a watercolourist, surveyor and soldier. Appointed deputy Surveyor-General of New South Wales, he arrived in Australia in 1829. Perry, with Captain William Dumaresq, was responsible for returning to Venice the four bronze horses of St Mark's which Napoleon had removed to Paris.


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