Title
Widowed and fatherless
1878
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1878
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- watercolour and gum
- Dimensions
- 68.5 x 53.4 cm image (sheet larger as wrapped around wooden board); 92.7 x 77.3 x 3.7 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., "T. Walter Wilson 1878 [all underlined]".
- Credit
- Purchased 1881
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 5851
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Thomas Walter Wilson
Works in the collection
- Share
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Victorian social conscience, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Aug 1976–19 Sep 1976
Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Aug 1993–24 Oct 1993
British and European watercolours - the first thirty years of the collection 1875-1906, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Apr 1996–02 Jun 1996
Victorian Childhood, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Feb 1999–19 Mar 1999
Victorian watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Jun 2017–03 Dec 2017
Exhibition of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours – The Forty-fourth [1878], New Society of Painters in Water-Colours, London
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Bibliography
Referenced in 26 publications
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Renée Free and Rose Peel, Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Sydney, 1993, p 12.
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"The Native", Sydney Mail, vol 33, no 1135, 'The Picture Gallery and the Museum', Sydney, 08 Apr 1882, p 548.
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Peter Raissis, Victorian watercolours from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017, pp 194–95, col illus p 195.
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Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Minutes 31.8.1880-4.8.1891, Sydney, 1880-1891, p 97 (12 Sep 1881).
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1925, p 77, no 1. Revised edition 1926.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 75, no 1.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1921, p 65, no 1.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 85, no 147. Revised editions 1918, 1919.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1910, p 96, no 158. Revised edition 1912.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, published by the Trustees, Sydney, 1899, p 57, no 362.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales (with illustrations) drawn by E L Montefiore, director, and others, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1893, p 85, no 248.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, (with illustrations), drawn by E L Montefiore, Esq (President of Trustees) and others, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1891, p 88, no 348.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales with illustrations, drawn by E L Montefiore, Esq, and others, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1888, p 71, no 87.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, with illustrations, drawn by E L Montefiore, Esq, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1886, p 49, no 40.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, with illustrations, drawn by E L Montefiore, Esq, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1884, p 43, no 22.
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Catalogue of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, with 94 illustrations drawn by E L Montefiore, Esa, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1883, p 38, no 22.
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The Argus, no 10960, 'Thursday, August 4 1881', Melbourne, 04 Aug 1881, pp 4–5: p 5.
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The Graphic, vol 18, no 459, London, 14 Sep 1878, illus cover page.
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Complement of The Magazine of Art, 'Art notes for June', London, Jun 1878, pp v–viii: p v.
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Fun, 'Exhibitions', London, 24 Apr 1878, p 169.
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The Era, no 2065, 'Institute of Painters in Water Colours', London, 21 Apr 1878, p 7.
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The Graphic, vol 18, no 438, 'The Institute of Water Colour Painters', London, 20 Apr 1878, pp 386–87: p 386.
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Exhibition of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours. The Forty-fourth. At their Gallery, 53, Pall Mall, near St. James's Palace, London, 1878, p 5, no 37.
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Dictionary of British art volume IV – Victorian painters. I. The text, Woodbridge, 1995, p 580.
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Victorian social conscience, Sydney, 1976, p 43, no 67.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1928, p 105, no 99.
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Provenance
Mr Fletcher's Art Gallery, Purchased by the AGNSW 1881