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Cape Gris Nez
(1881)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 62.0 × 86.5 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.r.: Cecchini.
- Accession Number
- p.308.6-1
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the Hon. C. J. Ham, 1882
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Marines and Seascapes
- Subjects (specific)
- bird (animal) cliffs clouds France (nation) Gris-Nez, Cap (cape) rocks (landforms) seas waves (natural events)
- Provenance
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Purchased from the artist by the Hon. Cornelius J. Ham MLC (1837–1909), Mayor of Melbourne, 1881/82; by whom donated to the NGV, 1882.[1]
[1] See ‘City and Suburbs’ in Advocate, Melbourne, Saturday 11 February 1882, p. 20, accessed http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article170024790. This painting was one of two executed by theartist while in Melbourne as part of the Italian delegation of Exhibition Commissioners 1880–82, See ‘New Pictures’ in The Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil, Melbourne, Saturday 13 August 1881, p. 266, accessed http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60623060.
