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Details
- Date
- 1882
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 208.3 x 134.6 cm stretcher; 249.0 x 177.4 x 17.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., brown paint "J W Waterhouse 1882" .
- Credit
- Purchased 1886
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 720
- Copyright
- Artist information
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John William Waterhouse
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts, 1882, Exhibition Venue Unknown, , 1882–1882
Victorian Olympians, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Jun 1975–20 Jul 1975
Victorian Olympians, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 12 Aug 1975–14 Sep 1975
Victorian Olympians, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 Sep 1975–26 Oct 1975
Victorian dreamers: masterpieces of neo-classical and aesthetic movements in Britain, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan, 08 Apr 1989–07 May 1989
Pre-Raphaelites and Olympians. Selected works of Victorian art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 2001–09 Sep 2001
J. W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite, Groninger Museum, The Netherlands, 13 Dec 2008–03 May 2009
J. W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 27 Jun 2009–13 Sep 2009
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 39 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2008–09, Sydney, 2009, p 96.
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Richard Beresford, Victorian visions: nineteenth century art from the John Schaeffer collection, Sydney, 2010, p 16.
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Richard Beresford, Pre-Raphaelites and Olympians. Selected works of Victorian art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 2001, unnumbered, pp 5, 53, col illus p 54.
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Henry Blackburn (Editor), Academy notes 1882, London, 1882, p 77, illus p 77 (sketch).
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Andrew Bolton Marvick, The art of John William Waterhouse: eclecticism in late nineteenth-century painting, New York, 1994, pp 99–101, 103, 179, 181–82.
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John Christian, Victorian dreamers: masterpieces of neo-classical and aesthetic; movements in Britain, Tokyo, 1989, pp 131–32, no 58, col illus p 92, pl 58, illus p 131.
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Patricia Crawford, History and legend in some selected paintings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1980, p 6, illus p 6.
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 205, illus p 205.
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Renée Free, Art and Australia, vol 10, no 1, 'European Collection', Sydney, Jul 1972, p 67.
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Renée Free and Peter Laverty, Victorian Olympians, Sydney, 1975, pp 28–29, no 38, col illus p 50.
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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 8, 1906, p 161.
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Anthony Hobson, The art and life of J W Waterhouse, RA, 1849–1917, London, 1980, pp 31, 36, 65, 181, no 48, col illus p 27, pl 16.
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Anthony Hobson, J W Waterhouse, Oxford, 1989, pp 25, 39–40, col illus p 27, pl 17.
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, p 175, no 2236.
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Arthur Mee, The children’s encyclopedia, London, [1939], illus p 5003.
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Elizabeth Prettejohn, J W Waterhouse: the modern Pre-Raphaelite, 'Waterhouse's imagination', Groningen, 2008-2010, pp 26, 90, no 11, col illus p 91.
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Peter Raissis, The Sydney Modern Project. Transforming the Art Gallery of New South Wales, "Past and present: the place of historical European art in Sydney", Sydney, 2022, pp 126–39: p 132.
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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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Margaret Sawicki, ‘Picture frame conservation or… repairing?, AICCM Bulletin, vol 20, no 2, 1995, pp 17–25: pp 23–24.
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Rose E D Sketchley, Art Journal, ‘The art annual: the art of J W Waterhouse, RA’, London, Dec 1909, p 32, illus p 20.
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Rose E D Sketchley, Art Journal, Article, London, 1910, p 20, illus p 32.
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Peter Trippi, J W Waterhouse, 'Italy and classical heritage', London, 2002, pp 47, 49–51, 59, 62, 97, col illus pp 8 (detail), 48.
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Angus Trumble (Curator), Love and Death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Adelaide, 2001-2002, p 198, col illus p 199. Not exhibited.
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Catalogue of the second interchange loan collections of oil paintings and water-colour drawings exhibited in the Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide Galleries, April 1896, Sydney, 1896, p 67, no 4, illus p 66.
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Age, Melbourne, 15 Apr 1886.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906, p 1, no 2.
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The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts … the one hundred and fourteenth, London, 1882, p 56, no 1515.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 18, no 20.
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Argus, ‘Mr Jeffray’s collection of pictures’, Melbourne, 15 Apr 1886, p 6.
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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 1.
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Old favourites, Sydney, 1954, np.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report for the year ended 30th June 1989, Sydney, 1989, p 75. Loan.
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Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 15 Apr 1886.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 6, no 2.
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Sydney Morning Herald, 'News of the day', Sydney, 17 Jul 1886, p 11.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Music, the drama, and art’, Sydney, 02 Sep 1886, p 4.
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Sydney Mail, ‘New picture for the Art Gallery’, Sydney, 28 Aug 1886, p 441, illus p 442 (in frame).
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Illustrated Sydney News, ‘The history of the Art Gallery of NSW’, Sydney, 22 Feb 1888, p 15, illus (sketch as part of article title).
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘National Art Gallery – the interchange question’, Sydney, 15 Oct 1895, p 3.
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Provenance
R.J. Jeffray, pre Apr 1886, Australia, Sold April 1886 through Messrs. Gemmell, Tucket and Co., at Devoirgilla, Toorak, Melbourne.
Henry Wallis, Apr 1886, Purchased by the AGNSW from Henry Wallis 1886