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1884
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
85.0 × 123.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of G. J. Coles and Company Pty Ltd, Governor, 1981
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Frederick McCubbin painted this work while a student of George Folingsby at the National Gallery School, Melbourne. It shows the influence of Folingsby’s teaching in its domestic genre, dramatic storyline, carefully controlled lighting and a grey-brown palette enlivened with red and purple. McCubbin has given this mid-Victorian narrative a strong Australian flavour with a bearded swagman, bedroll on his shoulder, returning home.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.r.: F / MEL
overinscribed first inscription in brown paint l.r.: F. McCUBBIN / 1884
Accession Number
A2-1981
Department
Australian Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Subjects (general)
Emotions and Mental States Human Figures Interiors
Subjects (specific)
arrivals dog (species) domesticity home (concept) homes journeys spouses swagman
Movements
Australian Impressionism Heidelberg School
Frame
By J. & T. Thallon, 1882-88, fitted to the painting 2002, surface not original