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Details
- Date
- circa 1886
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- watercolour and bodycolour with gum
- Dimensions
- 102.0 x 71.5 cm image (sheet larger as wrapped around a wooden strainer); 140.0 x 108.0 x 11.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., "C. Robertson...". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1886
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 1111
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Charles Robertson
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Exhibition of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours 1886, Society of Painters in Water Colours (SPWC), London, 1886–1886
Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Aug 1993–24 Oct 1993
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
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 23 publications
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Renée Free and Rose Peel, Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Sydney, 1993, p 11.
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Peter Raissis, Victorian watercolours from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017, pp 17, 166–67, col illus pp 15 fig 3, 167.
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Peter Raissis, Victorian watercolours: selections from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, p 11, no 32.
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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 302 (17 Sep 1886), 308 (19 Oct 1886).
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1928, p 110, no 125.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1925, p 89, no 78. Revised edition 1926.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 89, no 85.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1921, p 74, no 85.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 75, no 60. Revised editions 1918, 1919.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906, p 80, no 65. Revised editions 1908, 1910, 1912.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, published by the Trustees, Sydney, 1899, p 59, no 391.
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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 79, no 216, illus p 216.
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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 95, no 375, illus p 95.
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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 72, no 97, illus p 72.
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The Standard, no 19291, 'Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours', London, 12 May 1886, p 2.
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The Illustrated London News, no 2455, 'The Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours', London, 08 May 1886, p 495.
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The Saturday Review, no 1593, 'The Water Colour Society', London, 08 May 1886, pp 645–46: p 646.
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The Times, no 31751, 'The Royal Water-Colour Society', London, 05 May 1886, p 15.
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Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours 1886, illustrated catalogue comprising eighty facsimiles of drawings by the artists, London, 1886, no 96, illus pl 28.
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The Athenaeum, no 3057, 'Fine arts – The Society of Painters in Water Colours (second and concluding notice)', London, 29 May 1886, pp 719–21: p 720.
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The Queenslander, 'The BP Magazine', Brisbane, 17 Mar 1932, p 44.
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The Brisbane Courier, 'The BP Magazine', Brisbane, 08 Mar 1932, p 17.
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The BP Magazine, Australia's finest quarterly, vol 4, no 2, Sydney, 01 Mar 1932, col illus cover page.
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Provenance
London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW in 1886