![]() Newly Completed: December 1940. Grace Battiss, wife of Walter Battiss stands with her back to the camera next to the french door to the Living Room. Their car, a 1940 Oldsmobile is parked outside the garage. The gardener, Abraham, stands inside the garage on the left hand side. (Information provided by Giles Walter Battiss - August 2015) Photographer: Walter Battiss |
![]() Under construction circa May 1940 Photographer: Walter Battiss |
![]() Roof wetting: July 1940 Photographer: Walter Battiss |
![]() Extract from Photo album Photographer: Scanned image |
![]() House Battiss (circa 1950) from the pedestrian gate on the street boundary. The small rectangle visible on the wall of the house on the rhs was a Battiss copy of a bushman painting on a glazed ceramic panel. A small rectangular glazed ceramic plaque with the name 'GIOTTO'S HILL' was mounted on the lhs gate post, below the letter-box slot. Collection: Giles Battiss, scanned October 2016. Submitted by William MARTINSON Photographer: Unknown c1950 |
![]() View of the recently completed house in 1942, with four year old Giles Battiss in the foreground Submitted by Giles Battiss via William Martinson Photographer: Walter Battiss - 1942 |
![]() Rectangular glazed ceramic plaque (155 mm x 75 mm) made by Grace Battiss with the hand painted inscription 'GRACE & WALTER BATTISS GIOTTOS HILL'. The plaque was mounted at the pedestrian gate on the lhs gate post below the letter-box slot. The plaque was removed when the Battiss family sold Giotto's Hill. In the collection of Rain Battiss. Submitted by William MARTINSON Photographer: William Martinson - 2016 |
![]() A photograph of a painting of Giotto's Hill by Grace Battiss, wife of Walter Battiss - in the collection of Rain Battiss Photographer: William Martinson |
![]() Oil painting by Walter Battiss of the interior of his First Floor studio at Giotto's Hill, 1941 Painting in the collection of Giles Battiss Photographer: William Martinson - 2018 |
![]() Signature of Walter Battiss on painting of the interior of his First Floor studio at Giotto's Hill, 1941 Photographer: William Martinson - 2018 |
![]() An unfinished oil painting of a view through the Dining Room window of Giotto’s Hill by Grace Battiss-Anderson, circa 1945. Note the inward opening casement windows. Painting in the collection of Rain Battiss Submitted by William Martinson |
![]() Alteration drawing for Giotto’s Hill prepared by J C Smith, undated, circa 1960/61. The drawing captures the original layout of Giotto’s Hill plus the proposed single-storey, semi-detached flat (albeit with no kitchen) on the west side. Submitted by Giles Battiss via William Martinson Click for larger image |