[Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline], 1894 / painted by Arthur Streeton
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[Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline], 1894 / painted by Arthur Streeton
[Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline], 1894 / painted by Arthur Streeton
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Date
1894
Call Numbers
ML 1513 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Recent Acquisitions, Room 1, North Wall, no. 304
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Physical Description
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1 painting - 15.5 x 70 cm. - oil
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Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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Scope and Contents
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An oil painting on drapers panel of a view of Sydney Harbour from a high vantage point on Curraghbeena Point, looking out across Cremorne Point, over Fort Denison, with the city and the Botanic Gardens in the background.
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Full title
[Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline], 1894 / painted by Arthur Streeton
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
This painting was given by Emily Cecelia Bowden-Smith, as a gift for her husband, Admiral Nathaniel Bowden-Smith, in 1894, who was Commander of the Australian Fleet between 1892 and 1894. She wanted to give him something as a souvenir of their time in Sydney, which was about to conclude. Mrs Bowden-Smith displayed it in the drawing room at a functi...
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower right: "Streeton / .94".
On the reverse is a label: “N.B.S from E.C. B-S, 10th November 1894 in remembrance of two happy years in Sydney”.
[N.B.S. for Nathaniel Bowden-Smith; E.C. B-S for Emily Cecelia Bowden-Smith.]
Two labels on back of frame:
Exhibited 'Arthur Streeton and the Australian Coast'. 11 December...
Description source
Untitled. Titled by cataloguer.
Object History
Emily Cecelia Bowden-Smith purchased painting from Streeton in 1894.
By descent when purchased by Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery, 1986.
Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery to current vendor, 1987.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Justin Miller Art, January 2019
Administrative / Biographical history
Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) was one of Australia’s best known artists, and a key figure in the Australian Impressionist school. Streeton played with the panel “slice” idea from the early 1890s. All these panels from the 1890s and 1907 measure much around 17 x 65 cm. It was a formula unique to Streeton and he painted at least twelve of these panels...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ML 1513 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Recent Acquisitions, Room 1, North Wall, no. 304
Record Identifier
nM70JOeY
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Other Identifiers
Reference code
9623612
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