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Title
‘Road Knights’ by Daniel Rutter Long
Subject
art, artwork, Gippsland, rural Victoria, Daniel Rutter Long, knight, Road knights
Description
This artwork by artist Daniel Rutter Long is titled ‘Road Knights’. Completed in 1883, it is a watercolour and pencil painting depicting a rural farmhouse, cows, trees, an Aboriginal man wearing European dress, a seated woman and a child. The artist, Daniel Rutter Long (c.1803-1886), emigrated to Port Phillip from England with his wife and six children in 1840. He established a practice as a pharmacist in Bourke Street, Melbourne in 1843, and took up painting when he retired in 1857. Long produced a number of landscapes, including the collection of views of Gippsland that ‘Road Knights’ belongs to.
Creator
Long, Daniel Rutter
Source
State Library of Victoria, Accession no(s) H2003.91/31
Publisher
D.R. Long Collection of Views of Gippsland.
Date
1883
Rights
State Library of Victoria
Format
Hyperlink; Painting