Title
The magpie
1880s-1890s
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1880s-1890s
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- watercolour and bodycolour
- Dimensions
- 20.3 x 27.9 cm image; 22.0 x 29.1 cm sheet; 42.0 x 52.5 x 3.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., "BF [artist's monogram]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Albert and Katey Nathan 1941
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 7147
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Myles Birket Foster
Works in the collection
- Share
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Aug 1993–24 Oct 1993
British and European watercolours - the first thirty years of the collection 1875-1906, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Apr 1996–02 Jun 1996
Victorian Childhood, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Feb 1999–19 Mar 1999
Victorian watercolours: selections from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Jul 2000–27 Aug 2000
Victorian watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Jun 2017–03 Dec 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Renée Free and Rose Peel, Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Sydney, 1993, p 8.
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Peter Raissis, Victorian watercolours from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017, pp 96–97, col illus p 97.
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Peter Raissis, Victorian watercolours: selections from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, p 10, no 18.
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Jan Reynolds, Birket Foster, London, 1984, p 212.
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Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Minutes 19.1.1945-24.11.1950, Sydney, 1945-1950, pp 3024 (27 Aug 1948), 3096 (22 July 1949).
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Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Minutes 21.1.1941-23.2.1945, Sydney, 1941-1945, pp 2205–06 (21 Jan 1941).
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Provenance
Albert and Katey Nathan, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Bequest of Albert and Katey Nathan in 1941