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An image of Sydney Bridge IV: The ants' progress, November 1929 by Jessie Traill

Jessie Traill

(Australia 29 Jul 1881–15 May 1967)

Title
Sydney Bridge IV: The ants' progress, November 1929
Place of origin
Sydney → New South Wales → Australia
Year
1929
Media category
Print
Materials used
etching with foul biting, printed in brown ink on cream wove paper
Edition
2/25
Dimensions

39.8 x 25.2cm platemark; 49.0 x 33.6cm sheet

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. beneath platemark, pencil "JCA Traill 1929".
Credit
Purchased 1975
Accession number
201.1975
Copyright
© Jessie Traill Estate
Location
Not on display
Further information

The Gallery has the complete set of Jessie Traill's celebrated series of etchings depicting the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, completed in the years 1927 to 1931. Traill's interest in this complex engineering feat was shared by a number of artists, including her close contemporary Grace Cossington Smith, attesting to the central place the construction of the bridge had in the life of the city.

Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000

Bibliography (9)

Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Domain, 2007, 48 (colour illus.). cat.no. 68

Caroline Mackaness (Australia) (Author), Bridging Sydney, Sydney, 2006, 207 (colour illus.).

John Slater (England) (Author), Through artists' eyes: Australian suburbs and their cities 1919-1945, Melbourne, 2004, 59-60, 63, 74 (illus.). illus.no. 55

Peter Emmett (Author), Sydney: metropolis, suburb, harbour, Glebe, 2000, 49-50 (colour illus.).

Jane Hylton (b.1950) (Author), Modern Australian women: paintings & prints 1925-1945, Adelaide, 2000, 26 (colour illus.), 127. Collection of Art Gallery of South Australia

Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 193 (colour illus.).

Metropolis 1999, 1999. Exhibition guide, brochure format.

Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 11 (colour illus.), 44 (colour illus.). cat.no. 30

Ewen McDonald (Australia) (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 1994, 36 (colour illus.), 37.

Exhibition history (4)

Observing Sydney - Views of and from Observatory Hill, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 07 May 1993–13 Jun 1993.

Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999.

Metropolis, Museum of Sydney, 18 Dec 1999–02 Apr 2000.

Bridging Sydney, Museum of Sydney, 16 Dec 2006–29 Apr 2007.