N. D.

Also known as Isaac Scott Nind (possible attribution)
  • Artist (Painter)
Colonial watercolourist who is credited as being the author; or possibly the co-author with; Isaac Scott Nind of an 1828 watercolour painting of Frederick Town, the original name for Albany, Western Australia.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
N. D.
Also known as Isaac Scott Nind (possible attribution)
Gender
Unknown
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Active Period
  • 1828
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

watercolourist, was the apparent co-author of a watercolour entitled View of Frederick Town. King George’s Sound – at the Expiration of the First Year of its Settlement , dated 7 February 1828 (Mitchell Library) – Frederick Town being the original name for Albany, Western Australia. The work also bears the initials 'I.S.N.’ ( Isaac Scott Nind ) and Chapman has suggested that N.D. was actually Nind’s monogram.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Isaac Scott Nind
1797
Artist (Painter)
Existing watercolour by D.,N. is initialised by artist and I.S.N. (Isaac Scott Nind).
View of Frederick Town. King George's Sound - at the Expiration of the First Year of its Settlement
Date
7 February 1828
Citations:
  • notes on N.D. and I.S.N., (Place: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney; ML PXn 523)
  • Chapman, B., (1979), The Colonial Eye, (Place: Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia catalogue)