Melbourne from the River

Catalogue Details

Ethel Spowers
Melbourne from the River (circa 1924)
(Alternative titles: Town from the River; Melbourne from the Yarra)
colour woodcut
19.2 x 27.7 cm
edition of 20
usually titled, numbered and signed below image; not dated
(Coppel ES A/7)

Collections

Impressions held in private and public collections

Exhibited

Impressions have been exhibited in private and public galleries and museums

Melbourne 1924
Melbourne 1925
Melbourne 1948
Canberra and touring 2021-2022
Canberra 2023

Literature / Referenced

The Australasian, 1 November 1924
The Age, 4 August 1925
The Australasian, 8 August 1925
Coppel, Stephen, Linocuts of the Machine Age, 1995
Brown, Patty (ed.), Modern Australian Women Artists, 2020
Fish, Peter, The Australian Financial Review, 10 April 2014
Noordhuis-Fairfax, Sarina, Spowers & Syme, 2021


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Image: Courtesy of Deutscher and Hackett

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