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Title
Off the Eddystone – effect of storm
1826
Details
Other Title
Pilot boat going off to a vessel in a hard gale, near the Eddystone
Date
1826
Materials used
watercolour with pen and scraping out over traces of pencil
Dimensions
64.5 x 91.0 cm image/sheet; 100.0 x 126.0 x 4.5 cm frame
Signature & date
Signed and dated on broken mast, "Copley Fielding 1826".
Credit
Purchased 1888
Location
Not on display
Accession number
1098
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Copley Fielding
Off the Eddystone – effect of storm
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Exhibition history
British and European watercolours - the first thirty years of the collection 1875-1906, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Apr 1996–02 Jun 1996
Victorian watercolours: selections from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Jul 2000–27 Aug 2000
Victorian watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Jun 2017–03 Dec 2017
Provenance
Mrs Haldimand, pre 1861, London/England, her sale, Christie's London, 21 June 1861, no 68, sold for 94 gns.
Mr James Morris, pre 1883, London/England, his sale, Christie's London, 3 March 1883, bought at the sale by 'Isaac' for ₤157.
Source unknown, 1888, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW in London 1888
Referenced in 23 publications
Bibliography
Alfred Beaver, The Art Journal, 'The art sales of 1883', London, Oct 1883, pp 321–24: p 321.
Victorian watercolours: selections from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, p 10, no 15.
Victorian watercolours from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017, pp 86, 88, col illus p 88.
National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 77, no 13.
National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1921, p 66, no 13.
National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 79, no 86. Revised editions 1918, 1919.
National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906, p 85, no 92, illus p 85. Revised editions 1908, 1910, 1912.
Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, published by the Trustees, Sydney, 1899, p 54, no 331.
Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales (with illustrations) drawn by E L Montefiore, director, and others, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1893, p 100, no 303.
Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, (with illustrations), drawn by E L Montefiore, Esq (President of Trustees) and others, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1891, p 75, no 294.
Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales with illustrations, drawn by E L Montefiore, Esq, and others, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1888, p 78, no 105.
Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Minutes 31.8.1880-4.8.1891, Sydney, 1880-1891, pp 388, 389 (21 Aug 1888).
AGNSW archive 31/1888, 27 Mar 1888.
The Athenaeum, no 2889, 'Sales', London, 10 Mar 1883, p 319.
Catalogue of the choice cabinet of water-colour drawings, pictures, engravings, books, enamels, etc, the property of Mrs Haldimand, deceased..., London, 21 Jun 1861, p 6, no 68.
La Belle Assemblée or Court and Fashionable Magazine, no 29, 'Fine arts' exhibitions – Painters in Water Colours', London, May 1827, p 236.
The Literary Chronicle, 'Society of Painters in Water-Colours (second notice)', London, 05 May 1827, pp 283–85: p 285.
The Literary Gazette, no 537, 'Fine arts - Water Colour exhibition', London, 05 May 1827, p 283.
The Literary Gazette, no 536, 'Fine arts – Water colours exhibition', London, 28 Apr 1827, p 266.
Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, the twenty-third, London, 1827, p 9, no 109.
The New Monthly Magazine, 'Fine arts – Annual exhibition of paintings in water colours', London, 01 Jun 1827, pp 244–46: pp 244–45.
National Art Gallery of New South Wales illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1928, p 102, no 78.
National Art Gallery of New South Wales illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1925, p 79, no 13. Revised edition 1926.