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Painting
oil on canvas on hardboard
213.4 x 116.9cm board; 233.0 x 137.3 x 5.5cm frame
Purchased 1889
4554
Art Gallery of NSW, Ground Level, Australian Art 19th Century Galleries, Court 9A
Bibliography
Periodical; Look; Jill Sykes (Australia); Apr 2009, 29 (colour illus.), 'Brief encounters: Literary travellers in Australia, 1836-1939' by Susannah Fullerton, pg. 29. General/Book; Bailed up: the story behind the painting; Patrick H McCarthy (Australia, b.1933); 2006, 14-15, 16 (colour illus.) Educational/Television; Centenary of Federation: South Australia. South Australia, Federation and the twentieth century (Episode one: Utopia and the great Southern Land); Colin Haynes (Australia, active 2001); 17 Oct 2001, 0:18.37-0:18.40 (colour illus., detail), 'Utopia and the Great Southern Land' was broadcoast on ABC television 17 October 2001. General/Periodical; The Australasian coin & banknote collectables magazine; Brian Ahearn (active 2001); May 2001, front cover (colour illus.), Special issue on gold and gold discoveries in Australia. Book; Our guardian angels; Elsie D May (Australia); 2001, 41 (illus.) 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Exhibition venue
Title: Gold and civilisation Organizer: Art Exhibitions Australia Ltd
Venue: Melbourne Museum Opening: 18 Jul 2001 Closing: 21 Oct 2001
Venue: National Museum of Australia, Canberra Opening: 11 Mar 2001 Closing: 24 Jun 2001
Title: Gold Fever! Life on the diggings 1851-1855 Organizer: National Library of Australia Sovereign Hill Gold Museum, Ballarat
Venue: Sovereign Hill Gold Museum, Ballarat Opening: 16 Sep 1994 Closing: 20 Nov 1994 Curator: Evans, Michael Richards, Michael
Venue: Hyde Park Barracks Opening: 17 Jun 1994 Closing: 21 Aug 1994 Curator: Evans, Michael Richards, Michael
Venue: National Library of Australia Opening: 25 Feb 1994 Closing: 15 May 1994 Curator: Evans, Michael Richards, Michael
Title: Two hundred years of Australian painting : Nature, people and art in the southern continent Organizer: National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo Art Gallery of New South Wales Nihon Keizai Shimbun
Venue: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Opening: 14 Jul 1992 Closing: 06 Sep 1992 Curator: Pearce, Barry Arikawa, Haruo
Venue: National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo Opening: 28 Apr 1992 Closing: 28 Jun 1992 Curator: Pearce, Barry Arikawa, Haruo
Title: Julian Ashton Organizer: S.H. Ervin Gallery
Venue: S.H. Ervin Gallery Opening: 14 Nov 1981 Closing: 31 Jan 1982 Curator: Dysart, Dinah Notes: cat.no. 30
Title: A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting Organizer: Art Gallery of New South Wales
Venue: Art Gallery of New South Wales Opening: 25 Sep 1953 Closing: 25 Oct 1953 Notes: cat.no. 42
Title: Exhibition of Australian art in London (1898) Organizer: Grafton Galleries
Venue: Grafton Galleries Opening: 02 Apr 1898 Closing: 31 Jul 1898 Notes: cat.no. 91; lent by the Trustees of Sydney Gallery
Title: World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
Venue: Jackson Park, Chicago Opening: 01 May 1893 Closing: 30 Oct 1893 Notes: cat.no. 2; Section 1178
Title: Tenth Annual Exhibition of the Art Society of New South Wales (1889) Organizer: Royal Art Society of New South Wales
Venue: Society Rooms, Union Chambers Opening: 1889 Notes: cat.no. 53, price £150.0.0, Ashton, J.R., Glenview, Bondi, b&w illus. on page 21 of catalogue
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