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1884
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 105.0 × 181.9 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in maroon paint l.l.: Keeley Halswelle / 1884.
- Accession Number
- p.312.4-1
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1887
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
- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - Subjects (general)
- Agriculture Animals Landscapes
- Subjects (specific)
- domestic sheep (species) grasses (plants) rivers shade (light-related concept) trees
- Provenance
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Exhibited Royal Academy, London, 1885, no. 619; exhibited Grosvenor Gallery Intercolonial exhibition, Melbourne, 1887–88, no. 105; from where purchased, on the advice of G. F. Folingsby, for the NGV, 1887.
Exhibited Royal Academy, London, 1885, no. 619; Grosvenor Gallery Intercolonial exhibition, Melbourne, 1887–88, no. 105; Victorian Gold Jubilee Exhibition 1851–1901, Bendigo, 1901, no. 108.
- Frame
- Original, by W. A. Smith, London
Frame
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Though there is no label on this frame it is recognisable as a companion to the W. A. Smith frame on Halsewelle’s Heart of the Coolins, Isle of Skye 1886, which was purchased the year after this painting.
Variations of this frame can be found on Peter Graham’s An Easterly Breeze (p.312.2-1) , and After the Massacre of Glencoe (p.315.1-1) along with William Hatherell The baliffs daughter of Islington (4308-3) - Framemaker
- W. A. Smith
20 & 22 Mortimer Street, Regent Street, London W. - Date
- c.1884
- Materials
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timber, composition, gold leaf
- Condition
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good original condition