Walter Withers
(Australia 1854–1914)
- Title
- S.S. Excelsior rounding Pt Henry
- Year
- (circa 1890)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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25.5 x 50.8cm stretcher; 33.8 x 58.7 x 4.1cm frame
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated. Previous inscription l.l. corner, "Walter Withers". No longer visible in 1999.
- Credit
- Purchased 1951
- Accession number
- 8558
- Location
- 19th c Australian art
- Bibliography (5)
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Linda Slutzkin (Australia, d.2005) (Author), On the beach, Sydney, 1982, 9 (illus.). cat.no. 4
Okko Boer (Author), Masters of the Heidelberg School, Leichhardt, 1998, 100 (illus.). plate no. 97
Alan McCulloch (Australia, b.1907, d.1992) (Author), John Henshaw (New Zealand; Australia, b.1929, d.2006) (Editor), The golden age of Australian painting - Impressionism and the Heidelberg school, Melbourne, 1969, 51 (colour illus.).
Bernard Smith (Australia, b.1916, d.2011) (Author), A catalogue of Australian oil paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952, Sydney, 1953, 217.
Rodney James (Author), Sea of dreams: the lure of Port Phillip Bay 1830-1914, Mornington, 2011, 76.
- Exhibition history (2)
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On the Beach, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 08 Dec 1982–28 Dec 1982.
Sea of Dreams: the lure of Port Phillip Bay 1830 - 1914, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 07 Dec 2011–19 Feb 2012.
