Descriptive tool for artefacts which whereabouts are unknown without being thought of as no longer existent or lost.
1 I could show you another Avery, but she is not on view to everybody.
2 This kitchen is in storage and not on view .
3 Such work is usually carried out in a studio and therefore is not on view to the public.
4 The one thing not on view was the product itself, so regretfully we cannot report on its efficacy.
5 The mere fact that the room was not on view actually sharpened their desire that I should see it.
6 At 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.
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