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Numb fingers working while the eye of morn is yet bedimmed with tears
1888
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
46.0 × 66.2 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Dr Margaret Sutherland, 1972
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
inscribed in red paint l.r.: J. Sutherland 1888
Accession Number
A14-1972
Department
Australian Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Subjects (general)
Daily Life Human Figures Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
Australia (nation) farming (activity or system) fields (land) Melbourne (inhabited place) morning Victoria (state) women (female humans)
Movements
Australian Impressionism
Frame
Original, by John Thallon, Melbourne, surface not original
Frame
Though the frame has been resurfaced it is still representative of a style derived from the basic cassetta form. It was likely to have originally been similar in finish to the frame on Norman Macgeorge’s Mother-of-pearl (258-2). The dark timber veneer contrasts with the oil-gilded ornament. This is the frame listed in Thallon’s ledger on 13 October 1888, under Miss Sutherland, thus: 1 frame wide oak with gold (M) outside [laurel dark with 1 (in.) flat] the whole to be 5 ½ (in.) wide 26 x 18 R. The frame cost £2.12.
Frame Details
Framemaker
John Thallon
Melbourne
Date
1888
Materials
The frame is based on a tapering wooden flat, veneered with oak and mitred at the corners, giving a concave bevel to the veneered section. The torus ornament is cast composition, small-scale laurel and berry. The outer section carrying the ornament sits on top of the flat.
Frame Condition
All the surfaces have been reworked, including the veneer section, which is now very dark.
Dimensions
73.5 x 94.5 x 4.5 cm; sight 43.5 x 64.5 cm