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An image of Building the Harbour Bridge V: Going up by Jessie Traill

Jessie Traill

(Australia 29 Jul 1881–15 May 1967)

Title
Building the Harbour Bridge V: Going up
Year
1930
Media category
Print
Materials used
etching, foul biting, printed in brown ink with plate tone on cream wove paper
Edition
7/25
Dimensions

40.8 x 25.0cm platemark; 51.1 x 29.3cm sheet

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. beneath platemark, pencil "J.C.A. Traill 1930.".
Credit
Purchased 1975
Accession number
202.1975
Copyright
© Reproduced with permission
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (4)

Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Domain, 2007, 49 (colour illus.). cat.no. 69

John Slater (England) (Author), Through artists' eyes: Australian suburbs and their cities 1919-1945, Melbourne, 2004, 59-60, 63, 74. Overall discussion of Traill's 'Bridge' etchings.

Metropolis 1999, 1999. Exhibition guide, brochure format.

Kay Vernon (Author), Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 38

Exhibition history (4)

Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 13 Jan 1990–11 Mar 1990.

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

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

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