Tom Roberts
(England, Australia 08 Mar 1856–14 Sep 1931)
- Title
- On the Timbarra - Reek's and Allen's sluicing claim
- Other titles:
- Dredging in the Clarence (Reek’s)
On the Timbarra-Reek’s and Allen’s Sluicing Claim
Gold Digger - Place of origin
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Tenterfield →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- (circa 1894)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas on hardboard
- Dimensions
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66.0 x 103.0cm board; 84.7 x 120.7 x 5.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l. corner, brown oil "Tom Roberts". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1961
- Accession number
- OA19.1961
- Location
- 19th c Australian art
- Bibliography (15)
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Patrick H McCarthy (Australia, b.1933) (Author), Bailed up: the story behind the painting, Sydney, 2006, 76, 77 (colour illus.).
Terry Smith (Author), Transformations in Australian art: The nineteenth century - landscape, colony and nation [Volume One], St Leonards, 2002, 99.
The artists 1993: Australian old master painters 1993, 1993, (colour illus.). Illustration featured for the month of June, 1993; not paginated.
William Splatt (Author), Susan Bruce (Author), 100 masterpieces of Australian landscape painting, Melbourne, 1986, 122, 123 (colour illus.). plate no. 58
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Two centuries of Australian painting: a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, New South Wales, 1986, 21 (illus.). cat.no. 10
Ian Donaldson (b.1935) (Editor), Tasmin Donaldson (b.1939) (Editor), Seeing the first Australians, North Sydney, 1985, 110, 124, 126 (illus.). plate no. 8.16
Helen Topliss (Australia) (Author), Tom Roberts 1856-1931: a catalogue raisonné. Volume 2 - Plates, Melbourne, 1985, (colour illus.). titled 'On the Timbarra-Reek’s and Allen’s Sluicing Claim’; plate.no. 219
Helen Topliss (Australia) (Author), Tom Roberts 1856-1931: a catalogue raisonné. Volume 1 - Text, Melbourne, 1985, 131. cat.no. 219
Susan Bruce (Author), A treasury of Australian bush painting, Adelaide, 1979, (colour illus.). plate no. 26
Virginia Spate (Australia) (Author), Tom Roberts, Melbourne, 1978, 62 (colour illus.), 70, 148. plate no. 18
Robert Lindsay (Australia, b.1945) (Author), Aspects of Australian Art: Art Gallery of New South Wales travelling art exhibition 1976, Sydney, 1976, (colour illus.). cat.no. 11; dated circa 1895-1896; not paginated
'Tom Roberts' by Daniel Thomas, pg. 466-487., Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly (Vol. 10, No. 4) Jul 1969, Jul 1969, 474 (illus.).
Dennis Colsey (Australia) (Author), Hal Missingham (Australia, b.1906, d.1994) (Author), One hundred years of Australian landscape painting: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1968, Sydney, 1968, 4, 5 (illus.). cat.no. 3; dated circa 1895
Editor Unknown (Editor), Exhibition and sale of paintings by Tom Roberts, previous to his leaving Australia., Sydney, Nov 1900. titled 'Dredging in the Clarence (Reek’s)'; cat.no. 25; priced 20 guineas
New South Wales Society of Artists (Australia, estab. 1895, closed 1960s), The Society of Artists Second Spring Exhibition, Sydney, Sep 1896, 4. titled ‘On the Timbarra-Reek’s and Allen’s Sluicing Claim’; cat.no. 13; priced £26.5.0
- Exhibition history (5)
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Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962.
One hundred years of Australian landscape painting: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1968, Various, 1968–1969.
Aspects of Australian art: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1976, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1976–1977.
Two centuries of Australian painting, a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Orange Regional Gallery, 19 Apr 1986–15 Jun 1986.
L'Été australien à Montpellier, Musee Fabre, 30 Jun 1990–13 Sep 1990.
