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127203
  • Title
    [View of Tenterfield] / painting by Joseph Backler
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ML 1124
    Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, South Wall, no. 201
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1861
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    127203
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    1 painting - 67.5 x 86.5 cm (in gilded wood), 90.0 x 109.5 cm (in gesso frame) - oil on canvas
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    See The artist and the patron : aspects of colonial art in New South Wales / Patricia R. McDonald and Barry Pearce. Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988, cat. no. 65, p. 83-4, location : Q759.994/70 Mitchell Library.

    Offered for sale at Lawson's Fine Paintings and Drawings Sales, 18 September 1984, lot 24. Purchased by Mr D. Cornes.

    Mitchell Library file notes (ML 1857/84) prior to the Lawson's sale describe the condition of the work: paint surface crazed, with damage centre left. The work appears to have been conserved before 'The artist and the patron' exhibition in 1988.

    Reproduced in Christie's Australian and European Paintings Sale Catalogue, Part I, 20 August 1996, lot 124, p. 98.
    Digitised in 1999 from a colour transparency (FM5/1387) presented by the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand in October 1995.
    Digital order no:p2_00036
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Signed and dated lower right: 'J. Backler/1861'.

    Framer's label on reverse upper centre: 'From Henry Voll & Co / Art Publishers / Finsbury Pavement London EC'.

    Exhibition label on reverse lower right: 'Lent by Miss K. Nall'.
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