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Details
- Other Title
- Bideford Sands, an incident in Henry Kingsley's "Westward Ho!"
- Date
- 1889
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 147.8 x 184.0 cm stretcher; 211.0 x 247.0 x 12.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., brown paint "F BOURDILLON/1889".
- Credit
- Purchased 1890
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 726
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Frank Wright Bourdillon
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts, 1889, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1889–1889
Exhibition of British Art, 1890, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Melbourne, 1890–1890
The Tempest, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 10 Jun 2016–26 Nov 2016
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 25 publications
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Frank Bourdillon (Royal Academy, Art Journal, 'On Bideford Sands: from the painting, 1889)', London, 1890, p 72, illus opp p 65.
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Henry Blackburn (Editor), Academy notes, 1889 with illustrations of the principal pictures at Burlington House, London, 1889, p 66, no 745, illus with sketch p 66.
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Tom Cross, The shining sands: artists in Newlyn and St Ives 1880–1930, Devon, 1994, pp 72–74, illus p 73. Also illustrates a photograph of models posed in costume for the picture.
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Caroline Fox, Stanhope Forbes and the Newlyn school, London, 1993, pp 66–67, illus p 67.
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 17, illus p 17.
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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 1, 1905, p 251.
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Marcus B. Huish (Editor), The year's art 1890, London, 1890, p 53, illus p 49 (sketch).
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, p 52, no 158.
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Tom Roberts, Argus, 'The National Art Gallery of New South Wales', Melbourne, 31 Oct 1891, p 4.
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Exhibition of British art by the Royal Anglo-Australian Society of Artists, Sydney, 1890, p 13, no 11. Crystal Palace, Sydney.
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Exhibition of British art by the Royal Anglo-Australian Society of Artists, Melbourne, 1890, p 30, no 103. Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
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The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, MDCCCLXXXIX, the one hundred and twenty-first, London, 1889, p 25, no 745.
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Illustrated Sydney News, Sydney, 07 Jun 1890, p 24.
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Sydney Morning Herald, 'The Royal Anglo-Australian Society's Pictures', Sydney, 13 Aug 1890, p 8.
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Sydney Morning Herald, 'Review of the year artistic', Sydney, 31 Dec 1890, p 10.
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National Art Gallery (report of trustees for the year 1890), Sydney, 1891, p 1.
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Art Journal, 'The Royal Academy', London, Aug 1899, pp 217–20: p 220.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 16, no 28.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 35, no 103.
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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 2.
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Old favourites, Sydney, 1954, np.
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Art and Australia, vol 10, no 1, Sydney, Jul 1972, p 64. Art Gallery of New South Wales special number.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906, p 12, no 29, illus p 12.
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Pall Mall Gazette "Extra", 'The pictures of 1889', London, 06 May 1889, illus p 29.
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New South Wales Art Gallery pictures, Sydney, 1931, illus pl 38.
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Provenance
Royal Anglo-Australian Society of Artists, Melbourne/Victoria/Australia, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Royal Anglo-Australian Society of Artists 1890.