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Details
- Date
- circa 1886
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- watercolour and bodycolour with gum
- Dimensions
- 102.0 x 71.5 cm image (sheet larger as wrapped around a wooden strainer); 140.0 x 108.0 x 11.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., "C. Robertson...". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1886
- Location
- Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 1111
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Charles Robertson
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Exhibition of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours 1886, Society of Painters in Water Colours (SPWC), London, 1886–1886
Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Aug 1993–24 Oct 1993
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
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Bibliography
Referenced in 23 publications
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Renée Free and Rose Peel, Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Sydney, 1993, p 11.
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Peter Raissis, Victorian watercolours: selections from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, p 11, no 32.
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Peter Raissis, Victorian watercolours from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017, pp 17, 166–67, col illus pp 15 fig 3, 167.
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Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Minutes 31.8.1880-4.8.1891, Sydney, 1880-1891, pp 302 (17 Sep 1886), 308 (19 Oct 1886).
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1928, p 110, no 125.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1925, p 89, no 78. Revised edition 1926.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 89, no 85.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1921, p 74, no 85.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 75, no 60. Revised editions 1918, 1919.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906, p 80, no 65. Revised editions 1908, 1910, 1912.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, published by the Trustees, Sydney, 1899, p 59, no 391.
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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 79, no 216, illus p 216.
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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 95, no 375, illus p 95.
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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 72, no 97, illus p 72.
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The Athenaeum, no 3057, 'Fine arts – The Society of Painters in Water Colours (second and concluding notice)', London, 29 May 1886, pp 719–21: p 720.
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The Standard, no 19291, 'Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours', London, 12 May 1886, p 2.
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The Illustrated London News, no 2455, 'The Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours', London, 08 May 1886, p 495.
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The Saturday Review, no 1593, 'The Water Colour Society', London, 08 May 1886, pp 645–46: p 646.
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The Times, no 31751, 'The Royal Water-Colour Society', London, 05 May 1886, p 15.
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Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours 1886, illustrated catalogue comprising eighty facsimiles of drawings by the artists, London, 1886, no 96, illus pl 28.
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The Queenslander, 'The BP Magazine', Brisbane, 17 Mar 1932, p 44.
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The Brisbane Courier, 'The BP Magazine', Brisbane, 08 Mar 1932, p 17.
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The BP Magazine, Australia's finest quarterly, vol 4, no 2, Sydney, 01 Mar 1932, col illus cover page.
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Provenance
London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW in 1886