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Founding Australia 1788
Presented by Frank Albert 1937
adults
Australia
Ball, Henry L., Lieutenant
bay
beach
Blackburn, David
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
coast
Collins, David, Captain
countries and continents
Donovan, Stephen, Midshipman
eating and drinking
exploration
flag, Union Flag
governor
group
groups
history
Johnston, George, Lieutenant
King, Philip Gidley, Lieutenant
landscape
leisure and pastimes
lifestyle and culture
man
named individuals
objects
people
Phillip, Arthur, Captain
places
politics and society
Powell, Newton, Lieutenant
public service
religious and ceremonial
seascapes and coasts
ship - non-specific
society
society: Australia, colonisation, 1788
Sydney, Sydney Cove
toasting
transport: water
wooded
work and occupations
<p>This painting was commissioned for the 150th anniversary of the landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove under the leadership of Captain Arthur Phillip. Six of the eleven ships were convict transports. The purpose of the voyage was to establish a penal colony, which later became the city of Sydney. Phillip was appointed by the British authorities as the first Governor of the New South Wales colony, which began the British colonisation of Australia. Talmage’s rose-tinted imagining of the founding moment does not include any of the Eora people whose Country the settlers landed on, nor any of the transported convicts.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2021</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
7 June 2021 – 14 May 2023
2023-05-14
7 June 2021
2021-06-07
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2021-06-07
A Year in Art - Australia 1992
Collection based display
The Founding of Australia 1788
support: 2290 × 3200 mm
Presented by Frank Albert 1937
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<p>This painting was commissioned for the 150th anniversary of the landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove under the leadership of Captain Arthur Phillip. Six of the eleven ships were convict transports. The purpose of the voyage was to establish a penal colony, which later became the city of Sydney. Phillip was appointed by the British authorities as the first Governor of the New South Wales colony, which began the British colonisation of Australia. Talmage’s rose-tinted imagining of the founding moment does not include any of the Eora people whose Country the settlers landed on, nor any of the transported convicts. </p>
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<p><b>N04877</b> THE FOUNDING OF AUSTRALIA 1788 1937</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘A. Talmage ’37' b.l.</p>
<p>Canvas, 89×125 1/2 (226×319).</p>
<p>Presented by Frank Albert 1937.</p>
<p><i>Coll:</i> Commissioned by the donor.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1937 (146), as ‘The Founding of Australia by Capt. Arthur Philip [<i>sic</i>] R.N. Saturday, 26 January 1788’.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1937, p.51.</p>
<p>The subject was suggested to Frank Albert of Sydney by D. Hope Johnston, founder and ex-President of the Australasian Pioneers' Club, Sydney, who supplied the historical details. After its presentation to the Tate Gallery the picture was exhibited in Sydney to commemorate the 150th anniversary of its foundation.</p>
<p>The First Governor and Captain-General of New South Wales was Captain Arthur Phillip, R.N. The scene is Sydney Cove and the Governor (in the centre) is about to propose the health of King George III after the hoisting of the Union Jack and the Guard of Marines' salute. The other principal figures are Captain David Collins (with his foot on a tree-trunk), founder and First Governor of Tasmania, and Lieutenant Henry L. Ball, Commander of the Brig <i>Supply</i>, the first vessel to enter Sydney Harbour (right). Others, from left to right, are: (3) Midshipman Stephen Donovan; (6) Lieutenant Newton Powell; (7) David Blackburn, Master, all of the <i>Supply</i>; (8) Lieutenant Philip Gidley King of the Flagship <i>Sirius</i>; and (9) Lieutenant George Johnston, afterwards Administrator of the Colony.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-20T00:00:00
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adults Australia Ball, Henry L., Lieutenant bay beach Blackburn, David cities, towns, villages (non-UK) coast Collins, David, Captain countries and continents Donovan, Stephen, Midshipman eating and drinking exploration flag, Union Flag governor group groups history Johnston, George, Lieutenant King, Philip Gidley, Lieutenant landscape leisure and pastimes lifestyle and culture man named individuals objects people Phillip, Arthur, Captain places politics and society Powell, Newton, Lieutenant public service religious and ceremonial seascapes and coasts ship - non-specific society society: Australia, colonisation, 1788 Sydney, Sydney Cove toasting transport: water wooded work and occupations