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Tambourine
1891
Medium
oil on tambourine
Measurements
25.7 cm diameter
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
Gallery location
Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia
About this work
Arthur Streeton’s tambourine depicts Tom Roberts’s studio at Grovesnor Chambers, at the top of Collins Street, Melbourne. Built expressly for artists and in the late nineteenth century, the Chambers were occupied by the likes of Charles Conder, Jane Price, Clara Southern and Jane Sutherland. Often, Roberts would hold a series of conversaziones – social meetings for conversation about art – where he and Streeton would play the American cabinet organ, while McCubbin sang. During the first half of 1891, while Roberts was away painting in rural New South Wales, he gave Streeton and fellow artist John Mather the run of the studio. At the time, tambourines were fashionable novelties to paint on, and were used by professionals and amateurs alike.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
incised in paint l.l.: A Streeton / 1891.
Accession Number
2004.221
Department
Australian Painting
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Subjects (general)
Interiors Musical
Subjects (specific)
drapery (representations) easels Melbourne (inhabited place) paintings (visual works) paper lantern vases