1788 ... 1938 150 years of progress
![Artist: Meere, Charles. | Title: 1788 ... 1938 150 years of progress | Date: 1937 | Technique: lithograph, printed in colour, from multiple stones [or plates] | Copyright: With permission of Margaret Stephenson-Meere](/media/cache/df/78/df78e5fb68167f556dc30b82d0cdb43b.jpg)
Primary Artist
Charles Meere (1890–1961)
Title
1788 ... 1938 150 years of progress
Date made
1937
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Poster
Print type
planographic
Technique
lithograph, printed in colour, from multiple stones [or plates]
Matrix size
99.2 x 60.8 cm (printed image)
Support
cream lithographic paper
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run unknown
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
no inscriptions
Subject description
Two-masted sailing ship, sailing under the Sydney Harbour Bridge with tall city buildings in background. Aboriginal people lower left look on as white sailors land on the shore.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
77344
Accession number
88.715
Accession method
Curator's allowance
Meeting
Meeting 11, 1987/88 (1988-06-28)
Provenance
Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1988.
Credit line
Purchased from Gallery admission charges 1988
Copyright
With permission of Margaret Stephenson-Meere
Subject categories
Sydney Harbour Bridge | Australia, travel poster | Australia, Sesquicentennial, 1938
Country of context
Australia
Creators
Meere, Charles. | (1890–1961) Australian | English | Male | artist