• Title
  The Town Band, 1951 / H. Badham
• Creator
  Herbert (Herbert E.) Badham, 1899-1961
• Call number
  ML 1557
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Recent Acquisitions, Room 1, North Wall, no. 305
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1951
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  9650510
• Physical Description
  1 painting - 38.2 x 45.7 cm - oil on canvas on board
  
• Collection history
  Provenance: Macquarie Galleries, Sydney ; Private Collection, Sydney ; Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney ; Private Collection, Sydney. Exhibited in: Jubilee Exhibition, Society of Artists, Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 1-17 Sept. 1951, no. 44 ; Herbert Badham (1899-1961), Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Aug. – 10 Sept. 1979, no. 17 ; Australian Paintings: Colonial, Impressionist, Early Modern, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 8-25 March 1983, no. 66, ‘The Town Band (The Eastern Command Band Performing outside Victoria Barracks)’ ; Herbert Badham 1899-1961, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, 27 Aug. – 4 Oct. 1987 & S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 10 Oct. – 15 Nov. 1987, no. 48 ; 20th Century Australian and New Zealand Painting, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, 22 Aug. – 28 Sept. 1991, no. 13 ; A Face in the Crowd, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 24 May – 12 Oct. 1997, no. 2. Reference Smith & Singer catalogue, sale no. PAA002, 28 May 2020
• Scope and Content
  Depicts the Eastern Command Band performing near Victoria Barracks in Paddington, N.S.W.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: Herbert Badham
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• General note
  
  Identified as The Eastern Command Band performing outside Victoria Barracks in Australian Paintings: Colonial, Impressionist, Early Modern, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 8-25 March 1983, no. 66 (Mitchell Library call no. Q759.994/27).
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Verso of painting inscribed in ink
  Title: "The Town Band"
  Artist: H Badham / East Sydney Tech. College
  Price: 40 Guineas
  
  Partial label attached verso of painting '...ier" / ...Series[?]' annotated '6/9'.
  Signed and dated lower right ‘HBADHAM ‘51’.
  Verso of frame has labels attached - '310' ; two labels from Martin Browne Fine Art, 13 MacDonald Street, Paddington NSW ; label with title and original sale price ; and label of Paddington Frames, 252 Abercrombie St Chippendale.
• Conservation note
  
  Frame is a reproduction frame made by Paddington Frames.
• Subject
  Audiences--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
  Bandmasters.
  Bands (Music)--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
  Conductors (Music).
  Eastern Command Band
  Musicians--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE18880770

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