Tambourine

Streeton, Arthur (1867-1943)


Item type:
musical instrument or object
Date of creation:
1891
Diameter:
25.7 cm  (10 1/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on tambourine
Place of creation:
Melbourne (Australia)
School:
Heidelberg School

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Victoria
    The Joseph Brown Collection[Museum inv. no.: 2004.221]

Description

Painting on the center of a tambourine depicting the interior of Thomas William Roberts' studio, where Streeton resided for a period.
Though several professional artists like Streeton engaged in it, painting tambourines was a popular novelty among Victorian young ladies (see references).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tambourine [2746] (Painting is done on the surface of a tambourine.)

Image URLs

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Museum image

Bibliographic references

Teniswood-Harvey, Arabella. "Music and cross-cultural exchange in the art of Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and James McNeill Whistler", Music in art 38/1-2 (2013) 89-99. RILM 2013-8554.

RIdIM record id

3414