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The purple noon's transparent might 1896

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The purple noon's transparent might 1896

By

Arthur Streeton

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National Gallery of Victoria

[Accession Number: 33-2]

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Hawkesbury district Richmond

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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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Streeton, Arthur

National Gallery of Victoria

Founded in 1861, the National Gallery of Victoria is Australia's oldest public art gallery.

Visual Arts

Rivers and Catchments

Richmond

North-western town on Hawkesbury River named after the 3rd Duke of Richmond, Master General of the Ordnance. One of five townships in the region established by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, it contains many historic buildings and is the location of a Royal Australian Air Force base. In 1829 the name used for the area by the local Aboriginal people was recorded as being Marrangorra.

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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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River that runs for 120 kilometres from the confluence of the Nepean and Grose rivers west of Sydney to Broken Bay north of Sydney. The Darug and Darkinjung people who lived along the river called it Dyarubbin.

Streeton, Arthur

Painter and war artist who, despite no formal instruction, captured the light, heat and distance of the Australian landscape.

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Hawkesbury district

Area surrounding the Hawkesbury River to Sydney's north and north-west, which was important in early colonial agriculture and the site of the early towns of Richmond and Windsor.

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