Collection Online

Browse by artist name

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
The Levant Mine

The Levant Mine
 1959

Medium
oil on composition board
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1960
© the artist's estate
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
oil on composition board
Measurements
106.8 × 152.6 cm
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.l.: John Tunnard / -59 / -
incised in paint l.l.: TRO / 19
inscribed in pencil on reverse: THE LEVANT MINE / TRO 19 / John Tunnard / 1959
Accession Number
677-5
Department
International Painting
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1960
© the artist's estate
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
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Abstract Art Structures
Subjects (specific)
columns (architectural elements) mine structures mines (extracting complexes) ruins texture (artistic concept) United Kingdom (nation)
Provenance
With McRoberts & Tunnard Gallery, London (dealer), 1959; from where purchased, on the advice of A. J. L. McDonnell, for the Felton Bequest, 1960.

Discover more

Essay
The Levant Mine

Explore the collection

Water mill Frank SHORT (engraver); J. M. W. TURNER (after) Frontispiece Karel DUJARDIN View of the Ponte Moli near Rome CLAUDE LORRAIN Hotel Luna, Amalfi Bertram NICHOLLS Visible structures table (large) Oki SATO (designer); NENDO, Tokyo (design studio) The white mill, Canterbury Frank SHORT Hill End ruins Margaret OLLEY The High Mills UNKNOWN; William SMALL (after) Beyond Metropolis 3 Mandy MARTIN Sketch of a small gabled hall with belfry John RUSKIN London from Highgate Archway UNKNOWN Landscape John VARLEY Munitions River Joseph PENNELL Lindisfarne Priory, Durham. Ruined archway overgrown by trees with figure in foreground John Wilson EWBANK Fosdyke bBridge Frank SHORT A Man in a boat near two ancient towers Jean Jacques BOISSIEUX Lines, rooms, grass, bush structures Ken WHISSON To Mexico City Gunter CHRISTMANN Madrid John OLSEN Broadstairs Pier Frank SHORT Landscape John VARLEY The Old Mill Maurice de VLAMINCK Undercliff Lynd WARD Erosion (Staircase negative) Analia SABAN A Sussex down Frank SHORT Venice Jean CARZOU Untitled Franz Edmond WEIROTTER An Oriental gateway David ROBERTS Down Montgomery Way (Vermont) Asa CHEFFETZ Old stables Frederick McCUBBIN