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Rachel
1867
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 153.5 × 109.0 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in grey paint l.l.: FG (monogram) 1867.
- Accession Number
- p.300.12-1
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased by the Commissioners of Fine Arts for Victoria, 1867
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)
- Human Figures Religion and Mythology
- Subjects (specific)
- chiaroscuro deserts pitchers (vessels) Rachel (Old Testament character) shadows steps (stair units) water wells women (female humans)
- Provenance
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Commission of the artist by the Fine Arts Commissioners, 1867
Exhibited: First Loan Exhibition of Works of Art, NGV, Melbourne, 1869, no. 501; The First Collections: The Public Library and the National Gallery of Victoria in the 1850s and 1860s, Melbourne University Gallery, 1992, no. 15.
Colourmen
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- Colourman
- ROWNEY
- Location of stamp
- Twice, on upper and lower half of front of loose lining canvas
- Transcript
- G.ROWNEY & Co/MANUFACTURERS/51.RATHBONE PLACE/LONDON
- Medium
- Ink stamp
- More Information
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