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[Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline], 1894 / painted by Arthur Streeton
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[Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline], 1894 / painted by Arthur Streeton
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ML 1513 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Recent Acquisitions, Room 1, North Wall, no. 304
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nM70JOeY
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[Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline], 1894 / painted by Arthur Streeton
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1894
Call Numbers
ML 1513 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Recent Acquisitions, Room 1, North Wall, no. 304
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— Physical Description
Contents
1 painting - 15.5 x 70 cm. - oil
— Other Descriptions
Level of description
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Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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Physical Access Conditions
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— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
An oil painting on drapers panel of a view of Sydney Harbour from a high vantage point on Curraghbeena Point, looking out across Cremorne Point, over Fort Denison, with the city and the Botanic Gardens in the background.
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
[Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline], 1894 / painted by Arthur Streeton
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Author / Creator
— NOTES
General note
This painting was given by Emily Cecelia Bowden-Smith, as a gift for her husband, Admiral Nathaniel Bowden-Smith, in 1894, who was Commander of the Australian Fleet between 1892 and 1894. She wanted to give him something as a souvenir of their time in Sydney, which was about to conclude. Mrs Bowden-Smith displayed it in the drawing room at a functi...
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower right: "Streeton / .94". On the reverse is a label: “N.B.S from E.C. B-S, 10th November 1894 in remembrance of two happy years in Sydney”. [N.B.S. for Nathaniel Bowden-Smith; E.C. B-S for Emily Cecelia Bowden-Smith.] Two labels on back of frame: Exhibited 'Arthur Streeton and the Australian Coast'. 11 December 2004-6 March 2...
Description source
Untitled. Titled by cataloguer.
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Purchased from Justin Miller Art, January 2019
Administrative / Biographical history
Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) was one of Australia’s best known artists, and a key figure in the Australian Impressionist school. Streeton played with the panel “slice” idea from the early 1890s. All these panels from the 1890s and 1907 measure much around 17 x 65 cm. It was a formula unique to Streeton and he painted at least twelve of these panels...
Identifiers
— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
ML 1513 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Recent Acquisitions, Room 1, North Wall, no. 304
Record Identifier
nM70JOeY
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— OTHER IDENTIFIERS
Reference code
9623612
