Title
Una fascina di olive
1877
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1877
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- watercolour and gum highlights over traces of pencil
- Dimensions
- 56.8 x 46.2 cm image (sheet lined on paper and wrapped around a wooden board); 80.5 x 69.5 x 5.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., "18 WCTD [artist's monogram] 77".
- Credit
- Purchased 1888
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 1022
- Copyright
- Artist information
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William Charles Thomas Dobson
Works in the collection
- Share
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts, 1877, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1877–1877
Exposition Universelle de Paris 1878, Palais du Champ-de-Mars, Paris, 01 May 1878–10 Nov 1878
Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition 1887, Exhibition Venue Unknown, , 21 Jun 1887–07 Jan 1888
Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Aug 1993–24 Oct 1993
British and European watercolours - the first thirty years of the collection 1875-1906, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Apr 1996–02 Jun 1996
Victorian watercolours: selections from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Jul 2000–27 Aug 2000
Victorian watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Jun 2017–03 Dec 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 18 publications
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James Bruce, Sydney Morning Herald, 'An Empire unlamented: Victorian watercolours', Sydney, 22 Jul 2000, p 12 [Spectrum].
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Renée Free and Rose Peel, Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Sydney, 1993, pp 6, 7, illus cover page (col), p 6 (b&w).
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John Oldcastle, Magazine of Art, 'Our living artists. William C T Dobson, RA', London, 1878, pp 183–86: p 186.
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Peter Raissis, Victorian watercolours: selections from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, pp 8, 10, no 8, col illus p 8.
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Peter Raissis, Victorian watercolours from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017, pp 72–73, col illus p 73.
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Wendy Symonds (Editor), Look, Heidelberg, May 1996, illus p 6.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906, p 73, no 25. Revised editions 1908, 1910, 1912.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, published by the Trustees, Sydney, 1899, p 59, no 397.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales (with illustrations) drawn by E L Montefiore, director, and others, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1893, p 100, no 305.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, (with illustrations), drawn by E L Montefiore, Esq (President of Trustees) and others, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1891, p 83, no 325.
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Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales with illustrations, drawn by E L Montefiore, Esq, and others, published by sanction of the Trustees, Sydney, 1888, p 70, no 85.
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Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition, 1887, opened 21st June 1887. Official catalogue of the exhibits, Adelaide, 1887, p 70, no 98. as 'lent by E. F. White, Esq.'.
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Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1878, à Paris. Catalogue officiel publié par le Commissariat Général. Tome 1. Groupe 1, oeuvres d'art. Classes 1 à 5, Paris, 1878, p 182, no 33. as 'appartient à M. E.-F. White'.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1928, p 101, no 72.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1925, p 78, no 6. Revised edition 1926.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 76, no 6.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1921, p 65, no 6.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 69, no 22. Revised editions 1918, 1919.
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Provenance
E-F White, pre 1878-1887, London/England, Exhibited at the 1878 Paris International Exhibition as belonging to 'M. E.-F. White'. Purchased by the AGNSW he 1887–88 Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition.