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Details
- Other Title
- In the days of old
- Date
- (1892)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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91.4 x 71.1 cm stretcher; 121.9 x 101.1 x 6.7 cm frame
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0 - Whole, 90.5 x 69.9 cm, SIGHT DIMENSION
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1892
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 5957
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Frank Mahony
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of the Art Society of New South Wales (1892), Society Rooms, Union Chambers, Sydney, 1892 -
World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Jackson Park, Chicago, , 01 May 1893–30 Oct 1893
Exhibition of Australian art in London (1898), Grafton Galleries, London, 02 Apr 1898–31 Jul 1898
A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 12 Mar 2021–11 Jul 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 15 publications
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Julian Ashton., Daily telegraph, ‘National Art Gallery: The Australian Court’, Sydney, 27 Sep 1905, unknown.
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Julian Ashton, Now came still evening on, Sydney, 1941, 98.
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Leigh Astbury, City bushmen: the Heidelberg school and the rural mythology, Melbourne, 1985, 127 (illus.), 128.
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Marcus B. Huish (Compilator), The year's art 1893: a concise epitome of all matters relating to the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture which have occurred during the year 1892, together with information respecting the events of the year 1893, 'Australia: New South Wales', pg. 205-207, London, 1893, between 206-207 (b&w line drawing).
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Australian artists: Some have real artistic merit and the collection is credible', Chicago Daily Tribune, 'Pictures, pg. 9, Chicago, 08 Jun 1893, 9.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1891, Sydney, 1891, Addendum. titled 'In the Days of Old'
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1899, Sydney, 1899, 52 (sepia illus.). cat.no. 261, Oil Paintings-Australian
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1893, Sydney, 1893, 107. cat.no. 371; titled 'As in the days of old'; Loan collection to Commissioners of the Chicago Exposition
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Bernard William Smith, A catalogue of Australian oil paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952, Sydney, 1953, 136.
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Terry Smith, Transformations in Australian art: The nineteenth century - landscape, colony and nation [Volume One], 'The divided meaning of 'Shearing the Rams': artists and nationalism, 1888-1895', pg. 66-106, St Leonards, 2002, 106.
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Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Minutes 1.9.1891-4.5.1898, Sydney, 1891-1898, 31 August 1892, 15 November 1892, 29 November 1892.
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William Walton, Art and architecture: Volume II, 'Australasia and Canada', pg. 29-32, Philadelphia, 1893, 32. Official illustrated publication of the art and architecture at the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893.
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World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893: Catalogue of the exhibits in the New South Wales Courts, 'Department K - fine arts, painting, sculpture, architecture and decoration. Grou, p 140, Sydney, 1893, 435. cat.no. 9; section 1178
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Sydney morning herald, 'Death of Frank Mahony', pg. 8, Sydney, 15 Aug 1916, 8.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Argus, Melbourne, 23 Oct 1896, page unknown. Cited in Leigh Astbury, 'City bushmen: the Heidelberg School and the rural mythology', Melbourne, 1985, pg. 128.
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