Terms and conditions of use
Wintry weather, Yarra Glen
1895
- Medium
- watercolour
- Measurements
- (76.2 × 133.7 cm) (image and sheet)
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown watercolour (in image) l.l.: J Mather. 9.95.
- Accession Number
- 15-2
- Department
- Australian Prints & Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1895
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Frame
- Original, by John Thallon, Melbourne, surface not original
Frame
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One of three watercolours by Mather in the collection, which are framed in ornate gilded frames usually associated with oil paintings. The simple neo-classical style compares with the frame on Evening, Brighton Beach (2003.475) and contrasts with the more elaborate frame on Lake Omeo, North Gippsland (p.431.2-1). Together these frames demonstrate an approach to the framing of large-scale watercolours that is not often retained.
Note
1 Hilary Maddocks, ‘Picture Framemakers in Melbourne c. 1860–1930’ in vol. 1, Frames, Melbourne Journal of Technical Studies in Art, University of Melbourne Conservation Service, 1999.
- Framemaker
- John Thallon
Melbourne - Date
- 18951
- Materials
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The frame is built from composition ornament on a wooden chassis. The torus is of banded laurel and berry, the inner scotia is plain, using acanthus leaves to cover the mitred corners.
- Condition
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The frame was regilded throughout in a restoration in 1988.
- Dimensions
- 112.0 x 169.5 x 12.0 cm; sight 77.0 x 134.0 cm