File:Gippsland, Sunday night, February 20th, 1898.jpg

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John Longstaff: Gippsland, Sunday night, February 20th, 1898  wikidata:Q20442848 reasonator:Q20442848
Artist
John Longstaff  (1861–1941)  wikidata:Q654756
 
John Longstaff
Alternative names
Sir John Campbell Longstaff
Description Australian painter
Date of birth/death 10 March 1861 Edit this at Wikidata 1 October 1941 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Clunes Melbourne
Work period from early 1880s until 1940
Work location
Melbourne, Paris, London
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q654756
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Title
Gippsland, Sunday night, February 20th, 1898
label QS:Len,"Gippsland, Sunday night, February 20th, 1898"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description

Bushfires ravaged Gippsland in the summer of 1897–98, covering an area of about 1600 square kilometres. The worst day, 1 February 1898, was named ‘Red Tuesday’, recalling that other day of horror so memorably recorded by William Strutt in his Black Thursday, February 6th. 1851.

John Longstaff visited Gippsland later in February 1898 to view the fires at first hand and collect material for a major picture. Gippsland, Sunday night, February 20th, 1898 was exhibited in a dramatic installation in his Melbourne studio in August 1898. A row of kerosene-lamp ‘footlights’ provided the illumination, and the effect was said to be ‘lurid and startlingly realistic’.

-- http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/bushfire/lon.shtml
Date 1898
date QS:P571,+1898-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium painting
Dimensions height: 144.8 cm (57 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 198.7 cm (78.2 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+144.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+198.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1464509
Accession number
48-2 (National Gallery of Victoria) Edit this at Wikidata
References National Gallery of Victoria artwork ID: 5869 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer image from [1], the painting is owned by the National Gallery of Victoria
Other versions There is a different shaded version, slightly bigger, at [2].

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