Coal mine, Wallsend, N.S.W. / A. Hy Fullwood
Coal mine, Wallsend, N.S.W. / A. Hy Fullwood
About this item
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Author / Creator
Date
approximately 1886
Call Numbers
SV/359
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Physical Description
Contents
1 painting - 40 x 28 cm - pencil and gouache, with gum arabic on paper on board
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Out of copyright
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Comprises four vignettes sketched in pencil and painted with gouache on one sheet paper, of coal miners working above and below ground at the colliery in Wallsend, New South Wales.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Coal mine, Wallsend, N.S.W. / A. Hy Fullwood
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed 'A. Hy Fullwood' on lower left quadrant
First vignette at top left titled 'Head of Mine'. Second vignette titled 'Cutting & Holling'. Third vignette titled 'A Trapper'. Fourth vignette titled 'Head of Screens'.
Description source
Dated and titled from reproduction in Picturesque atlas of Australasia / edited by Andrew Garran. Sydney : Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co., 1886, Volume 3, page 747.
Object History
Purchased by vendor at Davidson Auctions, Sydney, 20 September 2015.
Published information
Garran, A., & Schell, F. (1886). Picturesque atlas of Australasia / edited by Andrew Garran ; illustrated under the supervision of Frederic B. Schell, assisted by leading colonial and American artists. Sydney: Picturesque Atlas Publishing, Volume 3, page 747.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Day Fine Art, February 2017
Administrative / Biographical history
Albert Henry Fullwood (1863-1930) was born in Birmingham, England and studied art before migrating to Sydney in 1883. A year later he joined the Art Society of New South Wales and shortly afterwards obtained a position on the staff of the Picturesque Atlas of Australia where he completed many illustrations. This illustration was produced for the Pi...
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Call Numbers
SV/359
Record Identifier
1l42JpK1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1l42JpK1
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Reference code
1006347
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