Terms and conditions of use
Corn threshing in Tuscany
(c. 1886)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 71.7 × 154.8 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.r.: Arthur Lemon (rthur Lem underlined)
- Accession Number
- 756-2
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr William Drummond, 1914
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 Labour, Industry and Machinery
- Subjects (specific)
- corn (species) farmers (people in agriculture) horse (species) Italy (nation) threshing
- Provenance
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Exhibited Royal Academy, London, 1886, no. 967 as Threshing with Horse, Tuscany; with Grosvenor Gallery (dealer), London, by 1887; exhibited Grosvenor Gallery Intercolonial exhibition, Melbourne, 1887–88, no. 86; from where purchased by William Drummond, 1888; collection of William Drummond, Melbourne,
1888–1914; by whom gifted to the NGV, 1914.Exhibited Royal Academy, London, 1886, no. 967 as Threshing with Horse, Tuscany; Grosvenor Gallery Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1887, no. 86; Centennial International Exhibition, Victorian Loan Collection, Melbourne,
1888–89, no. 14 (Guide to the Picture Galleries, no. 67), lent by W. Drummond; Diamond Jubilee Loan Exhibition, NGV, Melbourne, 1897, no. 143, lent by W. Drummond.
Frame
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This Watts style frame with mitred corners may have been made in Melbourne around the time of acquisition in 1914. It compares with the frames on Frederick Whitehead’s Stony weir (made by John Thallon) and Jonathan Pratt’s James Watt's workshop 1886.
- Framemaker
- Unknown - 20th century
- Date
- c.1914
- Materials
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timber, composition, gold leaf
- Condition
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good original condition