Title
Off the Eddystone – effect of storm
1826
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Pilot boat going off to a vessel in a hard gale, near the Eddystone
- Date
- 1826
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- watercolour with pen and scraping out over traces of pencil
- Dimensions
- 64.5 x 91.0 cm image/sheet; 100.0 x 126.0 x 4.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated on broken mast, "Copley Fielding 1826".
- Credit
- Purchased 1888
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 1098
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Copley Fielding
Works in the collection
- Share
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
British and European watercolours - the first thirty years of the collection 1875-1906, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Apr 1996–02 Jun 1996
Victorian watercolours: selections from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Jul 2000–27 Aug 2000
Victorian watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Jun 2017–03 Dec 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 23 publications
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Alfred Beaver, The Art Journal, 'The art sales of 1883', London, Oct 1883, pp 321–24: p 321.
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Peter Raissis, Victorian watercolours from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017, pp 86, 88, col illus p 88.
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Peter Raissis, Victorian watercolours: selections from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, p 10, no 15.
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Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Minutes 31.8.1880-4.8.1891, Sydney, 1880-1891, pp 388, 389 (21 Aug 1888).
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1925, p 79, no 13. Revised edition 1926.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1921, p 66, no 13.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 79, no 86. Revised editions 1918, 1919.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, published by the Trustees, Sydney, 1899, p 54, no 331.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales (with illustrations) drawn by E L Montefiore, director, and others, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1893, p 100, no 303.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, (with illustrations), drawn by E L Montefiore, Esq (President of Trustees) and others, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1891, p 75, no 294.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales with illustrations, drawn by E L Montefiore, Esq, and others, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1888, p 78, no 105.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1928, p 102, no 78.
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AGNSW archive 31/1888, 27 Mar 1888.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 77, no 13.
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The Athenaeum, no 2889, 'Sales', London, 10 Mar 1883, p 319.
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Catalogue of the choice cabinet of water-colour drawings, pictures, engravings, books, enamels, etc, the property of Mrs Haldimand, deceased..., London, 21 Jun 1861, p 6, no 68.
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The New Monthly Magazine, 'Fine arts – Annual exhibition of paintings in water colours', London, 01 Jun 1827, pp 244–46: pp 244–45.
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La Belle Assemblée or Court and Fashionable Magazine, no 29, 'Fine arts' exhibitions – Painters in Water Colours', London, May 1827, p 236.
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The Literary Chronicle, 'Society of Painters in Water-Colours (second notice)', London, 05 May 1827, pp 283–85: p 285.
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The Literary Gazette, no 537, 'Fine arts - Water Colour exhibition', London, 05 May 1827, p 283.
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Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, the twenty-third, London, 1827, p 9, no 109.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906, p 85, no 92, illus p 85. Revised editions 1908, 1910, 1912.
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The Literary Gazette, no 536, 'Fine arts – Water colours exhibition', London, 28 Apr 1827, p 266.
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Provenance
Mrs Haldimand, pre 1861, London/England, her sale, Christie's London, 21 June 1861, no 68, sold for 94 gns.
Mr James Morris, pre 1883, London/England, his sale, Christie's London, 3 March 1883, bought at the sale by 'Isaac' for ₤157.
Source unknown, 1888, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW in London 1888