Title
A Chinese cook shop
(circa 1887)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- The opium den
- Date
- (circa 1887)
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, printed in dark brown ink with plate tone on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 20.4 x 15.2 cm platemark; 32.1 x 20.5 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., pencil "Tom Roberts.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 33.1978
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Tom Roberts
Works in the collection
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About
'The Chinese cook shop' was first exhibited in Melbourne in October 1887 at the Australian Artists' Association exhibition. Roberts planned to have it professionally editioned in London. It was exhibited again in Sydney in 1921 at the Australian Painter-Etchers Society's first exhibition, re-titled 'The opium den'. The plate was found in the studio of etcher Cyril Dillon, who printed proofs in 1920 when Roberts was visiting Australia.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, AGNSW, 1998
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Oct 1994–27 Nov 1994
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, , 04 Mar 1995–01 Apr 1995
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, , 03 May 1995–03 Jun 1995
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Australia, 22 Jun 1995–30 Jul 1995
Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Roger Arthur Butler, Printed images by Australian artists 1885-1955, Canberra, 2007, 9, 10 (colour illus.). Collection of National Gallery of Australia
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Nicolas Draffin, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Prints and Drawings - Australia, European and American', pg. 47-66, Sydney, 1981, 49, 66 (illus.). cat.no. 43
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 28 (illus.). cat.no. 28
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Everyday life: prints drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European art, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. 71
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Anne Ryan, Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 2007, 15 (colour illus.). cat.no. 18
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