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Details
- Date
- (1929)
- Media category
- Materials used
- engraving, brown ink on cream laid paper
- Edition
- 6/50
- Dimensions
- 18.9 x 13.8 cm platemark; 24.3 x 20.5 cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "FHCoventry". Not dated.
Signed l.r. to print [in reverse] "FHCoventry". Not dated.- Credit
- Bequest of Megan Machin neé Sharpe 1998
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 322.1998
- Copyright
- © the estate of Fred Coventry
- Artist information
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Fred Coventry
Works in the collection
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About
In a letter Coventry wrote to the Gallery not long before his death, he described the subject of this engraving, which
reveals his interest in the different elements brought together in the construction of a building, the structure of the scaffolding
obviously holding a great appeal; ‘… (it is) Montreal Place, Aldwych, Strand (near Australia House), London, W C. The scaffolding is intended to show that it is un-sawn timber with lashing cord on the left hand side, while on the centre and right it is steel piping and metal clamps.’from Anne Ryan, 'Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, Sydney 2007
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Gail Ross, Art New Zealand, 'Art & Industry: Frederick Halford Coventry (1905-1997)', pg. 60-63, New Zealand, Summer 2007-2008, 61.
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Anne Ryan, Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 2007, 64, 64 (illus.). cat.no. 94
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