Title
St. Catherine
1859
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Rome
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Italy
- Date
- 1859
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil and gold leaf on linen canvas
- Dimensions
- 32.6 x 20.5 cm stretcher; 45.5 x 32.6 x 4.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, gold "AEI .../ 1859".
- Credit
- Gift of Miss Spinks 1933
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 35
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Adelaide Ironside
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Rome
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
International Exhibition 1862 (London), Exhibition Venue Unknown, , 01 May 1862–01 Nov 1862
Australian Journeys, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Canberra, 17 Dec 2008–16 Dec 2011
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Her Majesty's Commissioners to the 1862 International Exhibition, International Exhibition 1862: Official catalogue of the Fine Art Department, London, 1862, 267. cat.no. 2608 'S. Catherine'; exhibited in the Roman Court in Class XXXVIII, paintings in oil and water colours, and drawings.
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Kiera Lindsey, Wild love: the ambitions of Adelaide Ironside, the first Australian artist to astonish the world, Crows Nest, 2023, n.pag. (colour illus.). Photo insert not paginated.
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John McDonald, Art of Australia. Vol 1: Exploration to Federation, ‘Shelter of freedom and boast of the world’, pg. 225-270, Sydney, 2008, 246, 248 (colour illus.).
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Amelia J Pemell, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'A correction. To the Editor of the Herald', pg. 10, Sydney, 05 Jul 1921, 10.
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Jill Poulton, Adelaide Ironside: the pilgrim of art, Sydney, 1987, 58, 60, 61-63, 67-68, 74 (colour illus.), 76, 78, 81-82, 123, 142. as 'St Catherine of Alessandria as Patroness of Philosophy'
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