• Title
  The Atlas Works, Sydney, making first locomotive engine, 1881 / Arthur Collingridge
• Creator
  Arthur Collingridge, 1853-1907
• Call number
  ML 584
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, West Wall, no. 40
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1881
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  836578
• Issue Copy
  Copy printAvailable on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  1 painting - 47 x 62.2 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 754
• Published Information
  Image has been reproduced in the Illustrated Sydney News, January 26, 1888, page 17.
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Building the first locomotive at Redfern workshops, 1881
  `The Atlas Works, Sydney : making the first locomotive' Collingridge’s is a very powerful study, being ‘as elaborate as a photograph and much more expressive than any photograph can ever be.’
  Art Society of New South Wales’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 1883, page 11.
  Research notes PXn 754
  Keyword subjects:
  Atlas Engineering Works
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated 'A. Collingridge/81' at lower right.
• Subject
  Locomotive works--New South Wales--Sydney--Pictorial works.
  Locomotives--New South Wales.
  Railroad yards--New South Wales--Sydney.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)

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