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Numb fingers working while the eye of morn is yet bedimmed with tears
1888
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 46.0 × 66.2 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Inscription
- inscribed in red paint l.r.: J. Sutherland 1888
- Accession Number
- A14-1972
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Dr Margaret Sutherland, 1972
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)
- Daily Life Human Figures Landscapes
- Subjects (specific)
- Australia (nation) farming (activity or system) fields (land) Melbourne (inhabited place) morning Victoria (state) women (female humans)
- Movements
- Australian Impressionism
- Frame
- Original, by John Thallon, Melbourne, surface not original
Frame
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Though the frame has been resurfaced it is still representative of a style derived from the basic cassetta form. It was likely to have originally been similar in finish to the frame on Norman Macgeorge’s Mother-of-pearl (258-2). The dark timber veneer contrasts with the oil-gilded ornament. This is the frame listed in Thallon’s ledger on 13 October 1888, under Miss Sutherland, thus: 1 frame wide oak with gold (M) outside [laurel dark with 1 (in.) flat] the whole to be 5 ½ (in.) wide 26 x 18 R. The frame cost £2.12.
- Framemaker
- John Thallon
Melbourne - Date
- 1888
- Materials
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The frame is based on a tapering wooden flat, veneered with oak and mitred at the corners, giving a concave bevel to the veneered section. The torus ornament is cast composition, small-scale laurel and berry. The outer section carrying the ornament sits on top of the flat.
- Condition
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All the surfaces have been reworked, including the veneer section, which is now very dark.
- Dimensions
- 73.5 x 94.5 x 4.5 cm; sight 43.5 x 64.5 cm