Title
Lyric poetry
1888
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Sappho
Allegorical bust
Lyric Muse - Date
- 1888
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 60.8 x 31.0 x 28.6 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated on back of base, incised "E. Bertram MacKennal/ 1888".
- Credit
- Purchased 1972
- Location
- Naala Nura, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 104.1972
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Bertram Mackennal
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Early Australian scupture: from its beginnings up to circa 1920, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 15 Mar 1977
Australian sculpture 1890-1919, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Jan 1987–22 Feb 1987
Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art 1890's-1930's, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1989–26 Nov 1989
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Bertram Mackennal, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Aug 2007–04 Nov 2007
Bertram Mackennal, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 30 Nov 2007–24 Feb 2008
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Deborah Edwards, Bertram Mackennal: the fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, ''Adaptability and versatility': Bertram Mackennal – an overview’', pg. 15-82, Sydney, 2007, 19, 21 (detail, colour illus.), 22 (detail, colour illus.), 26, 110. titled 'Lyric poetry'
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Deborah Edwards, Bertram Mackennal: Catalogue raisonné, Sydney, 2007, (colour illus.). Artworks: Sculpture: 1880s
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Deborah Edwards, Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art, 'The Expatriates', pg. 3-8, Sydney, Sep 1989, 5 (illus.), 63.
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Deborah Edwards., Australian sculpture 1890-1919, 'Australian sculpture 1890-1919', Sydney, 1987, (illus.). no catalogue numbers, not paginated
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Noel Hutchinson, Early Australian sculpture, from its beginnings up to circa 1920, 'The Indigenes', Ballarat, 1977. cat.no. 27
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