Their ever-shifting home

Royal Academy of Arts, 1887, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 02 May 1887–01 Aug 1887

Exhibition of British Art, 1890, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Melbourne, 1890–1890

Victorian social conscience, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Aug 1976–19 Sep 1976

Leigh Astbury, City bushmen: the Heidelberg school and the rural mythology, Melbourne, 1985, p [1476], illus p 146, fig 196.

Mrs Lionel Birch, Stanhope A Forbes, ARA, and Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes, ARWS, London, 1906, p 36.

Henry Blackburn (Editor), Academy notes 1887, London, 1887, p 15, illus with sketch p 84.

['Cervus'], Sydney Morning Herald, ‘To the gallery with an artist’, Sydney, 19 Sep 1891, p 4.

Paula Dredge and Alan Lloyd, Paintings conservation in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present: connecting the past to the future: contributions to the eleventh AICCM paintings group symposium, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2008, ‘The sub-committee and the restorer: conservation at the National Art Gallery of NSW 1899–1910’, Canberra, 2008, pp 25–37: p 29, illus p 37, fig 5.

Caroline Fox, Stanhope Forbes and the Newlyn school, London, 1993, p 26, illus p 27.

Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 64, illus p 64.

Renée Free, Art and Australia, vol 10, no 1, 'European Collection', Sydney, Jul 1972, p 64.

Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'European', Sydney, 1988, p 44.

Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, London, 1905-1906, vol 3, 1905, p 135.

C Lewis Hind, Art Journal, 'Stanhope A Forbes, RA', London, Dec 1911, pp 1–32: pp 8, 28, illus p 14.

Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, p 83, no 683.

May L Manning, Magazine of Art, 'Art in Australia', London, 1895, pp 215–19: p 218.

Wilfrid Meynell, The Art Journal, ‘Mr Stanhope A Forbes’, London, Jun 1892, pp 65–69: p 68. Includes engraving of the artist painting the picture (p 66).

Tom Roberts, Argus, ‘The National Art Gallery of New South Wales', Melbourne, 31 Oct 1891, p 4.

Howard D Rodee, Scenes of rural and urban poverty in Victorian Painting and their development, 1850 to 1890, New York, 1975, pp 90, 234.

Julian Treuherz, Hard times: social realism in Victorian art, Manchester, 1987-1988, p 12.

Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Mr Poynter's new picture [letter]’, Sydney, 24 Nov 1892, p 8.

National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906, p 34, no 90.

National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 32, no 81.

National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 56, no 153.

An exhibition of a selected number of subject pictures belonging to the national collection, typescript exh cat, Sydney, Jul 1943, p 11, no 38.

National Art Gallery (report of trustees for the year 1890), Sydney, 1891, p 1.

Sydney Morning Herald, no 16465, ‘Review of the year artistic’, Sydney, 31 Dec 1890, p 10.

Sydney Morning Herald, ‘The Royal Anglo-Australian Society’s Pictures’, Sydney, 13 Aug 1890, p 8.

Illustrated Sydney News, 'Notes on art', Sydney, 07 Jun 1890, p 24.

Exhibition of British art by the Royal Anglo-Australian Society of Artists, Melbourne, 1890, p 23, no 63.

Exhibition of British art by the Royal Anglo-Australian Society of Artists, Sydney, 1890, p 23, no 70.

Magazine of Art, ‘Art in September’, London, 1887, pp xliii–xlvi: p xlvi.

Victorian social conscience, Sydney, 1976, p 35, no 23, illus p 68.

Saturday Review, ‘The Royal Academy – II’, London, 14 May 1887, pp 685–86: p 685.

Builder, ‘Further notes on Academy pictures’, London, 14 May 1887, pp 714–16: p 715.

Magazine of Art, London, 1887, pp 289–94: pp 289–90, illus p 309 (with engraving).

The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, MDCCCLXXXVII, the one hundred and nineteenth, London, 1887, p 23, no 543.

Art Journal, ‘The Royal Academy exhibition’, London, 1887, pp 277–80: p 277.

Seventeenth autumn exhibition of pictures in oil and water-colours, Liverpool, 1887, p 14, no 169.

Illustrated London News, ‘The Royal Academy – third notice’, London, 21 May 1887, p 584.

Sydney Morning Herald, no 17964, ‘National Art Gallery – the interchange question’, Sydney, 15 Oct 1895, p 3.

Pall Mall Gazette “Extra”, ‘The Pictures of 1887’, London, 02 May 1887, illus p 39.

Catalogue of the second interchange loan collections of oil paintings and water-colour drawings exhibited in the Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide Galleries, April 1896, Sydney, 1896, p 47, no 2, illus p 46.