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Title

Argyle Cut from the west

1916

Artist

Sydney Ure Smith

Australia

09 Jan 1887 – 11 Oct 1949

  • Details

    Place where the work was made
    Sydney → New South Wales → Australia
    Date
    1916
    Media category
    Print
    Materials used
    etching, printed in brown-black ink with plate tone on ivory laid paper
    Edition
    22/30
    Dimensions
    24.9 x 13.7 cm platemark; 30.0 x 17.0 cm sheet (irreg.)
    Signature & date

    Signed and dated l.r. corner, pencil "Sydney Ure Smith/ June 1916".
    Signed in plate to print l.l. corner "S. Ure S.".

    Credit
    Purchased 1916
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    5869
    Copyright

    Reproduction requests

    Artist information
    Sydney Ure Smith

    Works in the collection

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  • About

    "Running from Harrington St. to Kent St., the Argyle Cut had a somewhat sinister air in the old days. It was started in 1843 and completed in 1858".

    Hal Missingham, 'The etchings of Sydney Ure Smith', Ure Smith Pty. Limited, Sydney, 1950

  • Places

    Where the work was made

    Sydney

  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 1 publication

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