Descriptive tool for artefacts which whereabouts are unknown without being thought of as no longer existent or lost.
1I could show you another Avery, but she is not on view to everybody.
2This kitchen is in storage and not on view.
3Such work is usually carried out in a studio and therefore is not on view to the public.
4The one thing not on view was the product itself, so regretfully we cannot report on its efficacy.
5The mere fact that the room was not on view actually sharpened their desire that I should see it.
6At an exhibition of Doré's pictures Whistler asked an attendant if a certain academician's large religious picture was not on view.
7"Excuse me," answered he; "that picture is certainly finished, but it is not on view."
8"Your late mother's candlesticks are, I'm afraid, not on view just now-ratherfar back in the, er, Arrangement- "saidThomas Ham.