Title
Snowdrop and the seven little men
1897
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Snowdrop and the Dwarfs
- Date
- 1897
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- tempera on gesso on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.2 x 89.2 cm stretcher; 77.5 x 116.5 x 5.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1897
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 1113
- Copyright
- Artist information
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John Dickson Batten
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Twenty-seventh autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and watercolours, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1897–1897
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
Looking for faeries: The Victorian tradition, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 16 Oct 2010–28 Nov 2010
Unknown, New Gallery, New Gallery, London, 1897?–1897?
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Bibliography
Referenced in 11 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2010–11, Sydney, 2011, p 115.
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Anna Clabburn, Looking for faeries: the Victorian tradition, 'The legacy of English fairy painting', Bendigo, 2010, np, col illus.
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 12, illus p 12.
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, p 47, no 85. As 'Snow white and the seven little men'.
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Aymer Vallance, The Studio, 'The Revival of Tempera Painting', London, 1901, pp 155–65: illus p 158. As 'Snowdrop and the Dwarfs'.
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Sydney Morning Herald, 'Art Matters', Sydney, 23 Mar 1898, p 3.
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Daily Telegraph, 'Art Gallery purchases', Sydney, 23 May 1898, p 3.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales (report of trustees for the year 1898), Sydney, 1899, p 2. As watercolour.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906, p 83, no 76.
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Twenty-seventh autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and watercolours, Liverpool, 1897, p 40, no 572.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906. States this is Batten's first work executed in tempera.
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Provenance
John Dickson Batten, England, Purchased by the AGNSW from the artist 1897