Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.c.: Sam Bough / 1857
inscribed in pen and brown ink on paper label on reverse u.c.: The Weald of Kent. / Sam Bough ARSA
inscribed in pen and brown ink on paper label on reverse u.c.: 6344 / Captn (n underlined) Gourlay / Hobart Town / New South Wales
Accession Number
p.303.3-1
Department
International Painting
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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
domestic sheep (species) horse (species) Kent (county) United Kingdom (nation) wagons (cargo vehicles) Weald, The (general region) windmills
Provenance
Exhibited Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1858, no. 514, lent by the Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland; Exhibition of Scottish Art Union Pictures, rooms of Mr Walesby, no. 5 Waterloo Place, London, June 1858; Glasgow Art Union prize, 1859, won by Captain Gourlay; his collection, Hobart, 1859–71[1]; offered for sale through McMeckan, Blackwood & Co. (dealer), Melbourne, December 1871; from where purchased for the NGV, 1871.[2]
[1] Arrived Hobart, January 1859. See ‘The Fine Arts’, in The Courier, Hobart, Saturday 8 January 1859, p. 2, accessed http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2466148
[2] See ‘Tuesday January 2 1872’, in The Argus, Melbourne, Tuesday 2 January 1872, p. 4–5, accessed http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5858392
Exhibited: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1858, no. 514, lent by the Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland; Exhibition of Scottish Art Union Pictures, rooms of Mr Walesby, no. 5 Waterloo Place, London, June 1858; Exhibition of Art Treasures, Hobart, 1862, no. 197, lent by Captain Gourlay[1]; The First Fifty Years: Nineteenth Century British Art from the Gallery Archives, NGV, Melbourne, 1992; Hidden Treasures, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, 1992.
[1] See ‘Exhibition of Art Treasures’, in The Mercury, Hobart, Tuesday 23 December 1862, p. 5, accessed http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8813855
Frame
Original, John Thallon, Melbourne, surface not original