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Autumnal showers
1869
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
124.7 × 174.8 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1869
Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Autumnal showers, which the Scottish painter Peter Graham showed at the Royal Academy, London in 1869, was greeted with acclaim. The Times newspaper felt that ‘in this picture Mr Graham seems to us to have hit just the right mean between distinctness and definition in his roadside bushes, his copse-wood, and his oat field. It should, indeed, be a lesson to our many over-definers in landscape’. The Times declared this and a second painting exhibited by Graham, to be ‘among the best, if not the best, landscapes of the year’.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed (diagonally) in red paint l.r.: Peter Graham / 1869
Accession Number
p.302.7-1
Department
International Painting
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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
autumn clouds dirt roads farmland fences (site elements) fields (land) rain weather
Provenance
Exhibited, Royal Academy, London, 1869, no. 31; purchased from the artist by Agnew's (dealer), London, 10 May 1869 (no. 5382); from where purchased, by Alfred Taddy Thompson, for the NGV, 10 May 1869.
Exhibited, Royal Academy, London, 1869, no.31; First Interchange Exhibition, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, 1894, no. 1; The First Collections: The Public Library and the National Gallery of Victoria in the 1850s and 1860s, Melbourne University Gallery 1992, no. 18.
Frame
Original, English, 19th century