St. Phillip Church, 1855? / after Frederic Charles Terry

DL 45

fonds

1855?

Graphic Materials, Paintings

901444

Copy print : DL 45
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

1 painting - diameter 36.8 cm, on base diameter 66.4 cm - oil on canvas, inset in papier mache table top

The painting forms the centre-piece of a black japanned, papier mache top of folding tea table. The roundel is bordered by inlaid mother-of-pearl in triangle and diamond design with long flower stem in applied gold transfer and encircled by gothic leaf pattern in gold transfer. The top has serpentine edging formed from Gothic ogee arches. Reverse has bracket and hook

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Title in brushpoint at lower centre

This table top with others (see under Terry, Frederick Charles, after) belongs to a genre in vogue between the 1840's and the 1870's. It was probably manufactured in England and the oil painting added in Australia, either on to a blank space or onto an earlier painting, now obliterated.

Keyword subject:
St. Phillip's Church (Sydney, N.S.W.)

Transferred from 259P

Unsigned

The painting is probably a copy of F.C. Terry's lithograph 'St. Phillip's Church, Church Hill, St. Patrick's Church' No. 20, in his 'Landscape Scenery' [Australian Keepsake 1855], Sydney, Sands & Kenny, 1855, but it is unlikely that it is Terry's work. Dated from publication