Title
Portrait bust of Mrs Gerald Marr Thompson
1892
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 1892
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- terracotta
- Dimensions
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59.2 x 42.5 x 30.0 cm
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base, 21.5 x 21.5 cm, base attached to work - information for display purposes only
- Signature & date
Signed and dated below right shoulder on support, incised "Emile Leÿsalle/ Sydney 1892".
- Credit
- Gift of Mr H. Cole 1972
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 75.1972
- Artist information
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Emile Leysalle
Works in the collection
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About
Eleanor Lucy Thomson (neé Cole) was the wife of Sydney University's Dean of Music and Art and critic for the 'Sydney Morning Herald', Gerald Marr Thompson.
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Australian sculpture 1890-1919, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Jan 1987–22 Feb 1987
Presence and absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], Canberra, 22 Aug 2003–16 Nov 2003
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Deborah Edwards, Presence & absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, Canberra, 2003, 22, 23 (colour illus.), 82. cat.no. 47
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Deborah Edwards., Australian sculpture 1890-1919, 'Australian sculpture 1890-1919', Sydney, 1987, (illus.). no catalogue numbers; not paginated
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Art Society's exhibition', pg. 3, Sydney, 17 Aug 1893, 3.
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