BC101

Untitled

[French Landscape Drawing]

Landscape. Drawing occupies lower two thirds of the page, framed at top by a drawn horizontal line, possibly a horizon line. LL shows winding road to mid-centre. Background features houses, trees to right.

Date
c. 1930 1939
Object type
drawing
Medium and materials
pencil on paper
Dimensions
216x170mm
Place Made
France
Inscriptions

Verso UL (not in artist's hand) pencil A253 26

Verso UR (not in artist's hand) pencil 79-326

Details
Provenance

Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand by H. F. V. Scales, 1979.

Condition Report

Unframed work on white paper. Page torn from a spiral-bound sketchbook, 54 spirals.

Copyright Licence
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Reference no. A-253-026
Current Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

Current Location

Wellington, New Zealand

General notes

Dated in relation to French Landscape Drawing [BC100 / BC100A].

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand documentation notes, "Looking out to a horizon with a winding road and trees, an indication of houses."

A black and white photograph of this work is included in an artist’s file dedicated to Flora Scales at the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, reference Scales, Helen Flora Victoria, 1887-1985, Artist file prints [see Related images 1-2]. The file contains black and white photographs on card of 26 of the artworks in the Alexander Turnbull collection and one not held in the collection [Untitled [Sand Dunes] [BC011]].

Each card measures 167 x 216mm and the image size varies. Each card has handwritten reference notes along the top detailing artist name, title, year, size, and reference number. Further, on the back of each card are handwritten annotations with information including media, reference numbers and location within the physical collection.

The cards in this file are undated. Correspondence B. de Lange and Kimberley Stephenson, Research Librarian Pictorial, Alexander Turnbull Library, September 2025, notes, “Neither the associated copy negatives nor the file prints are dated but based on notes I found in the negative register one group (intermittent between 1/2-092380-F and 1/2-092705-F) was in existence by May 1979, while a second group (intermittent between 1/2-162480-F to 1/2-162510-F) had been created by December 1986. Given most of the paintings entered the collection in 1979, this does suggest that the first group shows the works soon after they were accessioned. The second group appears to have been taken during reframing or conservation treatment as many are shown without their stretchers.”

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