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Details
- Other Title
- The bribe
- Date
- circa 1893
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 81.0 x 134.5 cm stretcher; 97.3 x 152.2 x 7.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., brown paint "Arthur Burrington". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1896
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 727
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Arthur Alfred Burrington
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Institute of painters in oil colours: 11th exhibition, Institute of painters in oil colours, London, 1893–1893
Tasmanian International Exhibition, Hobart 1894, Exhibition Venue Unknown, , 15 Nov 1894–15 May 1895
Victorian social conscience, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Aug 1976–19 Sep 1976
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Bibliography
Referenced in 13 publications
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John E Branch, Picture study in schools – records of the Education Society, no 7, Sydney, 1913, pp 31–33, illus p 29.
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 28, illus p 28.
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, p 60, no 310. As 'The bribe'.
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Saturday Review, 'Picture Galleries', London, 04 Nov 1893, p 517.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales (report of trustees for the year 1896), Sydney, 1897, p 1.
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International exhibition of industry, science and art, Queen’s Domain, Hobart, Tasmania, 1894–5: official catalogue of the exhibits, Hobart, [1894], p 56, no 37.
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Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 27 Nov 1894, p 6.
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Bulletin, 'Society', Sydney, 23 Feb 1894, p 14.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906, p 12, no 31.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 16, no 30.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 19, no 24.
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Victorian social conscience, Sydney, 1976, p 30, no 6.
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Institute of painters in oil colours: a catalogue of the 11th exhibition, containing illustrations by the artists, London, 1893-1894, p 15, no 142, illus p 45.
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Provenance
Source unknown, Purchased by the AGNSW 1896