Hoddle, Robert (1794-1881; English/ Australian)
Melbourne from the Survey Office 1840
Watercolour and pencil, 19 x 31.6 cm
Purchased, 1893
State Library of Victoria (H260)

The full title given in the NGV’s acquisitions register and early NGV catalogues is “Melbourne from the Survey Office Paddock, Collins Street West”.

Refs.

Not listed in AR; SB, p.434 (13 Aug.1893, no.3 of 4); NGV 1894, p.118 (V.Buvelot Gallery, 3rd bay, no.74); NGV 1905, p.128 ((V.Buvelot Gallery, 3rd bay, no.12)

See also Downer & Phipps Victorian Vision (1985), cat.118