Terms and conditions of use
Lost
1907
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- (134.6 × 199.0 cm)
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.l.: F McCubbin. / 1907
- Accession Number
- 1118-4
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1941
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Emotions and Mental States Human Figures Landscapes
- Subjects (specific)
- anxiety Australia (nation) boys children (people by age group) lost (status of property) scrublands suffering wooded landscapes
- Movements
- Australian Impressionism Heidelberg School
- Frame
- Reproduction, 1987
Frame
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To date we have no record of the original framing of the big version of McCubbin’s Lost from 1907, acquired in 1941 the year after the small version of 1886 was acquired. At some point a frame was constructed from simple decorative wood mouldings and fitted to the painting. The materials and look of the frame suggest the 1970s. (above)
A new frame was made for the painting in 1987. (top)
This frame references the wide cassetta style frames found on a number of Australian paintings from the late C19th. Several original examples exist in the collection.
It is a frame style that appears regularly in John Thallon’s ledger. The entries for McCubbin often suggest a bevelled form (see for instance the frame on McCubbin Winter Evening). - Framemaker
- Reproduction - crafted by the NGV
- Date
- 1987
- Materials
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Wood, composition, false gold leaf.