Emma Minnie Boyd (1858 - 1936)

LANDSCAPE WITH WATTLE, 1912

watercolour on paper on card

29.5 x 45.0 cm (sight)
45.0 x 63.2 cm (frame)

signed and dated lower right: E. M. Boyd/ 1912

Private collection
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 27 November 1989, lot 5 (as ‘Pond in a Forest’)
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 27 February 1991

BUS Art Collection, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales, 16 March – 12 April 1992, cat. 7
A New World, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 1 May – 30 August 2009
Overland, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 10 March – 15 July 2012
Dawn to Dusk: Landscapes from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 31 May – 16 November 2014

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 14, 38 (illus.), 214

Condition:
This work is in very good, stable and near original condition.
The work does not appear to be laid down. There are a small number of minor old foxing spots predominantly to the right edge and lower right quadrant of the composition which are visible in the enlarged online catalogue image.
Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration to the three works.

The work is housed in a timber gilt frame with window mount under Perspex.