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Harden Sidney Melville
Torres Strait Canoe and five men at the site of a wreck on the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, off Cape Grenville, North East Australia 1874
oil on canvas
74.0 × 125 cm 105.0 × 155.0 cm (framed)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Warren Clark Bequest and Ruth Margaret Frances Houghton Bequest, 2020
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Harden Sidney MELVILLE
Torres Strait Canoe and five men at the site of a wreck on the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, off Cape Grenville, North East Australia
1874

Medium
oil on canvas

Measurements
74.0 × 125 cm 105.0 × 155.0 cm (framed)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Warren Clark Bequest and Ruth Margaret Frances Houghton Bequest, 2020

Gallery location
Gallery 5
Level 2, NGV Australia

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England

Accession Number
2020.686

Department
International Painting

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Southern sojourns: Harden Sidney Melville’s 1874 painting of a Torres Strait canoe animated by Kulkalgal and Kemer Kemer Meriam voices of expeditions along the Great Barrier Reef

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