Title
Pressing wool bales, from the album Collection of a country property, New South Wales
1886-1891
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1886-1891
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- albumen photograph
- Dimensions
- 14.8 x 20.7 cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1984
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 149.1984.5
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Charles Bayliss
Works in the collection
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About
'Pressing wool bales' 1886-1891 shows the 'boss of the boards' in a typical pose of the shearing manager. The shearers in this photograph are the embodiment of hard masculine labour. It is an image which depicts social rank and was commissioned by the owner of the property. 'Pressing wool bales' ennobles the bushworker, a fundamental part of the great pastoral tradition in the nineteenth century.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Critic's Choice, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Apr 1994–10 Jul 1994
Arcadia: nineteenth century Australian photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Oct 1998–13 Dec 1998
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Robyn Donohue, Look, 'Arcadia: Nineteenth Century Australian Photography', pg. 22-23, Heidelberg, Oct 1998, 23.
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Robyn Donohue, Arcadia - nineteenth century Australian photography, Sydney, 1998, (illus.). no catalogue numbers
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Robert McFarlane, Critic's Choice, Sydney, 1994. no catalogue numbers
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