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The bell buoy

The bell buoy
 1900

Medium
oil on canvas
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1906
© Public Domain
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Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International

Artwork Details

Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
47.3 × 85.5 cm
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.l.: C. Napier Hemy - 1900.
inscribed in brown and black paint on reverse u.l.: No 1 No10. (No10 crossed out) The.bell buoy. (underlined) / C. napier Hemy. / Falmouth
inscribed in paint on reverse u.r.: New Gallery 1906
inscribed in pen and brown ink on paper label on reverse u.c.: No1 The Bel (...illeg.) / C Napier Heny / Churchfield (...illeg.)
Accession Number
268-2
Department
International Painting
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1906
© Public Domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
Subjects (general)
Marines and Seascapes
Subjects (specific)
buoys seas waves (natural events)
Provenance
Exhibited New Gallery, London, 1906; from where purchased, on the advice of Sir George Clausen, for the Felton Bequest, 1906.

Colourmen

Colourman
WINSOR & NEWTON
Location of stamp
reverse of canvas
Transcript
PREPARED BY/WINSOR & NEWTON/38, RATHBONE PLACE,/LONDON.
Medium
ink stamp

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