Terms and conditions of use
The river
1896
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 61.1 × 81.2 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Sydney, New South Wales
- Inscription
- inscribed in ochre/brown paint l.r.: A STREETon.96 -
- Accession Number
- A36-1980
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with the assistance of a special grant from the Government of Victoria, 1979
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Landscapes
- Subjects (specific)
- bends (streams) mountain ranges New South Wales (state) plains (landforms) riverbanks riverine landscapes rivers valleys (landforms)
- Movements
- Australian Impressionism Heidelberg School
- Frame
- Reproduction, 2007, based on a photograph from 1925
Frame
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Prior to 1990, The river (1896) had been framed in a Louis XIV revival frame (see image directly above). The painting was reframed in 1990 (see previous image) to match the frame on another painting by Streeton, Spring (A14-1978), thought to date to the 1920s but resurfaced.
In 2005 the framing of the painting was revisited. This time the frame was to be based on a photograph showing the framed painting on display in the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1925. Here the frame is a wide, flat plank appearing to carry a dark surface finish. The form of the new frame was derived from the photograph. The matte bronze surface is based on the frame on a painting by W.B. McInnes, The hill, 1917.
The painting was cleaned in 2006-7.
- Framemaker
- Reproduction - commissioned by the NGV
- Date
- 2007
- Materials
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The frame is cut from a single plank of timber dressed from an 8″ wide, 1″ thick board, with a bevelled sight edge and two recessed linear elements. The surface consists of a matte bronze coating over a gesso substrate.
Colourmen
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- Colourman
- REEVES & SONS
- Location of stamp
- Centre reverse of canvas
- Transcript
- REEVES & SONS,/MANUFACTURERS,/113, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.
- Medium
- Ink stamp
- More Information
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