signed lower right: K Bull 1853
verso: label: Hobart, Tasmania / sent by John Roberts / to his brother Robert (RJRII) / in about 1840s.
label: This painting of Hobart in about 1845...sent to my father the Rev R Roberts by / brother John Roberts
label: distressed Obiturary notice for John Roberts, Hobart, September
In the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
John Roberts
The Reverend R J Roberts
by descent to Robert Halliley
Australian Art Auctions, Sydney, 10 September 1979, cat. no. 16, item 175
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Frederick Bladin, Melbourne
The Estate of the late Frederick D. Bladin, Christies, Melbourne, 2 April 2003, lot 22
private collection, Melbourne
Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition of Australia, Melbourne, 1866
Australian Colonial Art, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 28 April - 23 May 1980, cat. no. 23
''The Painted Vision: 1840 - 1963'', Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 2009