Title
Down under, Newcastle upon Tyne
1938
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Down under, Newcastle
- Date
- 1938
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, aquatint, printed in black ink with plate tone from one plate, on cream wove paper
- Edition
- 3/25
- Dimensions
- 21.9 x 11.3 cm platemark
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "JCA Traill 1938.".
- Credit
- Tony Gilbert Bequest Fund 2014
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 101.2014
- Copyright
- © Estate of Jessie Traill/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Jessie Traill
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About
Jessie Traill is among the most celebrated Australian etchers of the early 20th century. She studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne and from 1907-09 in London under Frank Brangwyn, whose choice of industrial subjects and etching style was a great influence on her.
She exhibited etchings from 1908, with subjects ranging from urban and industrial to pastoral, and won international prizes for her prints. She was a member of the influential Australian Painter-Etchers' Society following her return to Australia in 1920; this etching was exhibited in their 1938 annual exhibition in Sydney.
Traill moved to England in 1937 and remained there for the duration of World War II. While she was not directly occupied with the war effort, her etchings from that period reflected the times, with several images of the industrial ship-building city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Annual exhibition by the members of the Painter-Etchers' and Graphic Art Society of Australia, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 02 Nov 1938–17 Nov 1938
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Roger Arthur Butler (Editor), Stars in the river: the prints of Jessie Traill, Canberra, 2013, 125 (illus.), 169. titled 'Down under, Newcastle'
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Clare Temple, Foundation Newsletter #24, 'Curators' and coordinators' reports', pg. 8-11, Sydney, Jul 2014, 10.
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