Title
"...and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore"
(circa 1929)
Artist
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Details
- Date
- (circa 1929)
- Media category
- Materials used
- engraving, printed in black ink with pale plate tone on buff wove paper
- Edition
- 1/50
- Dimensions
- 15.1 x 14.4 cm platemark; 22.5 x 19 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "FHCoventry". Not dated.
Signed l.r., [incised plate] "FHCoventry". Not dated.- Credit
- Bequest of Megan Machin neé Sharpe 1998
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 331.1998
- Copyright
- © the estate of Fred Coventry
- Artist information
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Fred Coventry
Works in the collection
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About
In a letter to the National Gallery of Australia Coventry wrote that this engraving was submitted for the Prix de Rome scholarship for engraving, which required evidence of skill in engraving, drawing
and composition.from Anne Ryan, 'Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, Sydney 2007
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Anne Ryan, Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 2007, 65, 65 (colour illus.). cat.no. 95
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