Trespassers
1878
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 61.2 × 107.1 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed (diagonally) in brown paint l.l.: J. Clayton Adams / 1878
inscribed in pen and brown ink on paper label on reverse u.r.: No 1. Trespa(...illeg.) / John Clayton Ada(...illeg.) / Eushurst Hill / No (o double underlined) Guildford - Accession Number
- 136-2
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Alfred Felton, 1904 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Provenance
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Exhibited Royal Academy, London, 1878, no. 453[i]; with Arthur Tooth & Sons (dealer), London, 1878; from where purchased by Robert H. Kinnear (1820–1902), by 1883[ii]; his collection, Brookong House, Toorak, Melbourne, until 1902; collection of Alfred Felton (1831–1904), Melbourne, by 1902 until 1904; by whom bequeathed to the NGV, 1904.[iii]
[i] H. Blackburn, ed., Academy Notes, London, 1878, p. 45
[ii] ‘Art notes: Private collections and collectors no. 1’, The Argus, Saturday 7 July 1883, p. 4.
[iii] Felton list, L.B. Hall papers, National Library, Canberra, Ms. 10814.
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1878, no. 453; Diamond Jubilee Loan Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, 1897, no. 58, owner R.H. Kinnear.
