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[Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline], 1894 / painted by Arthur Streeton

Full title: [Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline], 1894 / painted by Arthur Streeton

Author/creator: Streeton, Arthur, Sir, 1867-1943.

Date: 1894.

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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Formats: Pictures, Paintings

Contents: 1 painting - 15.5 x 70 cm. - oil

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Notes: 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 function she gave at Admiralty House on 7 December 1894: the Telegraph reported on 8 December 1894 (p.10) that “Mr Streeton’s excellent picture of Sydney, painted expressly for our hosts as a souvenir of their (as they are good enough to say) two happy years in Australia.” The Telegraph described it as “a living, speaking picture, full of that fire which is so peculiarly Australian…” Source: Library correspondence file.

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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

    Record identifier

    nM70JOeY

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    [Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline], 1894 / painted by Arthur Streeton

    Full title

    [Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline], 1894 / painted by Arthur Streeton

    Author / Creator

    Streeton, Arthur, Sir, 1867-1943

    Date

    1894

    Call Numbers

    ML 1513 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Recent Acquisitions, Room 1, North Wall, no. 304

    Record Identifier

    nM70JOeY

    Formats

    Pictures and Paintings

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    1 painting - 15.5 x 70 cm. - oil

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Fonds

    Access and use

    Copying Conditions

    Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955

    Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

    Physical Access Conditions

    Access to this pictures collection via appointment only. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian

    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Shipping--New South Wales--Sydney Harbour. Fort Denison (Sydney, N.S.W.) Cremorne Point (N.S.W.) Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works.

    More information

    — 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...

    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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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nM70JOeY

    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    9623612

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