Title
Great Britain in Egypt, 1886
1887
Artist















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Details
- Other Title
- Great Britain in Europe
- Date
- 1887
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 122.5 x 154.9 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l., oil "Walter C Horsley 87".
- Credit
- Purchased 1889
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 6058
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Walter Charles Horsley
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts, 1887, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 02 May 1887–01 Aug 1887
Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne 1888, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Melbourne, 01 Aug 1888–31 Jan 1889
Orientalism - Delacroix to Klee, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Dec 1997–22 Feb 1998
Orientalism - Delacroix to Klee, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, 20 Mar 1998–07 Jun 1998
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 26 publications
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Anon., Sydney Morning Herald, no 16152, 'Review of the year – art', Sydney, 31 Dec 1889, p 9.
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Anon., Athenaeum, no 3109, 'The Royal Academy (Third notice)', London, 28 May 1887, pp 708–10: p 710.
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Anon., The Art Journal, vol 5, 'The Royal Academy exhibition', London, Jul 1887, pp 245–48: illus p 247.
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Anon., The Art Journal, vol 5, 'The Royal Academy exhibition', London, Aug 1887, pp 277–80: p 279.
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Roger Benjamin, Ursula Prunster, Lynne Thornton and Mounira Khemir, Orientalism – Delacroix to Klee, Sydney, 1997-1998, p 89, no 33, col illus p 89.
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Henry Blackburn (Editor), Academy notes 1887, London, 1887, p 20.
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 90, illus p 90.
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Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, London, 1905-1906, vol 4, p 163.
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, p 106, no 1039.
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J Lake, Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne: official guide to the picture galleries and catalogue of fine arts, Melbourne, 1888-1889, p 21, no 77.
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Claude Phillips, Academy, no 785, 'The Royal Academy - II', London, 21 May 1887, pp 368–69: p 369.
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John Saxby (Editor), Look, Sydney, Oct 2015, col illus p 51.
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Colin McKay Smith, Daily Telegraph, 'The National Art Gallery of New South Wales', Sydney, 13 Apr 1897.
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Triumvir, Sydney Morning Herald, no 15960, 'Art, Music and the drama', Sydney, 18 May 1889, p 7.
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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, p 404 (27 Nov 1888).
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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, p 411 (30 Jan 1889).
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Centennial International Exhibition: official catalogue of the exhibits with introductory notices of the countries exhibiting, Melbourne, 1888-1889.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1912, p 63, no 196.
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Fifth Autumn exhibition, Manchester, 1887, p 21, no 197.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 52, no 172.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 29, 72.
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The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, MDCCCLXXXVII, the one hundred and nineteenth, London, 1887, p 38, no 1047.
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An exhibition of a selected number of subject pictures belonging to the national collection, typescript exh cat, Sydney, Jul 1943, p 10.
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Official record of the Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888–1889, Melbourne, 1890, p 641, no 36.
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National Art Gallery (report of trustees for the year 1889), Sydney, 1890, p 1.
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Provenance
Walter Charles Horsley, Purchased from the artist by the AGNSW 1889