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Title

Pastoral Avoca

undated post 1928

Artist

Sydney Long

Australia, England

20 Aug 1871 - 23 Jan 1955

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An image of Pastoral Avoca by Sydney Long

Details

Other Title

At Dee Why

Place where the work was made

Sydney → New South Wales → Australia

Date

undated post 1928

Media category

Print

Materials used

line etching, printed in dark brown ink on paper

Edition

2/50

Dimensions

22.4 x 30.6 cm platemark; 30.7 x 39.7 cm sheet

Signature & date

Signed l.r., pencil "Sydney Long ARE.". Not dated.

Credit

Gift of Miss B. Kelly 1958

Location

Not on display

Accession number

9921

Copyright

© Estate of Sydney Long. Courtesy Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia

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Artist information

Sydney Long

Artist profile

Works in the collection

143

Place

Where the work was made
Sydney
Shown in 1 exhibition

Exhibition history

Referenced in 4 publications

Bibliography

Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, The etchings of Sydney Long: the Richard King Collection, Goulburn, 1990, (illus.). cat.no. 36; titled 'Pastoral Avoca' also known as 'At Dee Why'; dated 1929/30; unnumbered edition

Jennifer Hardy, Country life: animals in the rural idyll, Gymea, 2005. List of works; no catalogue numbers

Joanna Mendelssohn, The life and work of Sydney Long, Sydney, 1979, 210 (illus.), 265. cat.no. 119; titled 'Pastoral Avoca'; dated after 1928; AGNSW edition only

Bob Pauling, Art & Music in early Dee Why, Neutral Bay, 2010, 26. General reference