Terms and conditions of use
Sydney Harbour by night
(c. 1910)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
(32.4 × 49.1 cm)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1954
Gallery location
Gallery 6
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Like many turn-of-the-century artists, Jane Price had a particular fascination with moonlit, twilight settings that captured the changing mood of the landscape. This may in part have been due to Price’s connection with Melbourne’s Theosophical Society, a community committed to ideas of spirituality and metamorphosis, of which she became a founding member in 1890. Price spent a period in Sydney from 1907 until the beginning of the First World War. There she began a series of paintings of Sydney Harbour and its headlands. Glistening with electric lights at twilight, this work reinforces the spiritual dimensions of the city at a time of rampant industrial change.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Sydney, New South Wales
Inscription
inscribed in red paint l.r.: J.R. Price
Accession Number
3133-4
Department
Australian Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Subjects (general)
Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
blue colours cityscapes (representations) harbours Jackson, Port (harbour) New South Wales (state) night reflections (perceived properties) Sydney (inhabited place)
Frame
By John Thallon, Melbourne