Title
Getting in the wheat 'The love story of Tamar Niell'
(1899)
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Getting in the wheat
Milking time
The love story of Tamar Niele - Date
- (1899)
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil, grey and black wash, white gouache
- Dimensions
- 28.9 x 13.3 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., brush and black ink "GWLAMberT". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Howard Hinton 1916
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 207
- Copyright
- Artist information
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George Lambert
Works in the collection
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About
This story by Lambert's friend William Beattie was intended to be a novel, but was shortened to just three instalments in the 'Australian magazine' in 1899.
excerpt from Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan and Patricia James, '19th century Australian watercolours, drawings & pastels in the Gallery's collection', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
George Washington Lambert (1873-1930), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Aug 1962–22 Oct 1962
George Lambert, 1873-1930: drawings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Feb 1993–02 May 1993
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
19th century Australian watercolours, drawings & pastels, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Apr 2005–24 Jul 2005
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, George Washington Lambert (1873-1930), Sydney, 1962. cat.no. 10
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William Beattie., Australian magazine, 'The love story of Tamar Niell', Sydney, 29 Apr 1899, 109 (illus.).
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Anna Gray (Editor), Art and Artifice: George Lambert (1873-1930), 1996, 17 (illus.).
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Anna Gray, George Lambert (1873-1930) catalogue raisonné: paintings and sculpture, drawings in public collections, Perth, 1996, 208. cat.no. I87
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Anna Gray and Hendrik Kolenberg, George Lambert, 1873-1930: drawings, Sydney, 1993, 25. cat.no. 10
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan and Patricia James, 19th century Australian watercolours, drawing and pastels from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 2005, 133 (colour illus.).
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