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An image of Mount Abrupt, the Grampians, Victoria by Eugene von Guérard

Eugene von Guérard

(England, Australia, Germany, Austria 17 Nov 1811–17 Apr 1901)

Title
Mount Abrupt, the Grampians, Victoria
Year
1856
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on paper on canvas
Dimensions

25.8 x 34.0cm stretcher; 43.6 x 52.1 x 7.3cm frame

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, red oil "Eug v.Guérard [underlined]/ ...1856".
Credit
Purchased 1968
Accession number
OA12.1968
Location
19th c Australian art
Bibliography (5)

Ruth Pullin (Australia) (Author), Eugene von Guérard: nature revealed, Melbourne, 2011, 124, 125 (colour illus.), 286.

Ursula Prunster (Australia) (Author), Australian arcady: Landscape paintings from the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection, Sydney, 1983. Note no pagination, text reference only; cat.no. 1

Candice Bruce (Australia) (Author), Edward Cornstock (Author), Frank McDonald (Australia) (Author), Eugene von Guérard: A German Romantic in the Antipodes, Martinborough, 1982, 191-192 (colour illus.). cat.no. 27

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. 2; not paginated

Sotheby's London (England) (Author), Catalogue of topographical paintings, drawings and prints, sporting, naval and decorative subjects and railway drawings, London, Jun 1967, 22. titled 'View of Mount Abrupt, taken from the South side of the Grampians, Victoria’; lot no. 105

Exhibition history (6)

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

Australian arcady: landscape paintings from the collection of the the Art Galery of New South Wales, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 21 Apr 1983–22 May 1983.

Australian arcady: landscape paintings from the collection of the the Art Galery of New South Wales, Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, 27 May 1983–19 Jun 1983.

Australian arcady: landscape paintings from the collection of the the Art Galery of New South Wales, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, 25 Jun 1983–22 Jul 1983.

Australian arcady: landscape paintings from the collection of the the Art Galery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 26 Aug 1983–30 Sep 1983.

Eugene von Guérard: nature revealed, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, 16 Apr 2011–07 Aug 2011.