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An image of Beach scene, Hobson's Bay by Girolamo Nerli

Girolamo Nerli

(Italy, Australia, New Zealand 21 Feb 1860–24 Jun 1926)

Title
Beach scene, Hobson's Bay
Year
(circa 1889)
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on cardboard
Dimensions

23.2 x 31.4cm board; 34.1 x 41.1 x 2.2cm frame

Signature & date
Signed l.l. corner, grey oil "G P [monogram]. Nerli". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1958
Accession number
9667
Location
19th c Australian art
Bibliography (4)

Peter Entwisle (Author), Michael Dunn (Australia, b.1942) (Author), Roger Collins (Author), Nerli - An exhibition of paintings & drawings, Dunedin, 1988, 34, 112, 113, 114 (illus.).

Robert Lindsay (Australia, b.1945) (Author), Aspects of Australian Art: Art Gallery of New South Wales travelling art exhibition 1976, Sydney, 1976, (illus.). cat.no. 5; not paginated

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, 31 (illus.). titled 'The Beach at Port Melbourne from the Foreshore of St Kilda'.

Purchases and Acquisitions for 1958 National Art Gallery of N.S.W. 1958, 1958, 12. cat.no. 21

Exhibition history (3)

Purchases and Acquisitions for 1958, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 11 Feb 1959–08 Mar 1959.

Aspects of Australian art: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1976, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1976–1977.

Italian artists working in 19th century Australia (1993), S.H. Ervin Gallery, 24 Sep 1993–21 Nov 1993.