• Title
  Furthest north, Burke and Wills, 1862 / J. Greig
• Creator
  Edward Jukes Greig
• Call number
  ML 807
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, North Wall, no. 143
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1862
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  447286
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 89.6 x 131.6 cm. (image only); 120 x 156 cm. (incl. frame)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Born ca. 1839 in Melbourne, Edward Jukes Greig exhibited oil paintings on historical and literary subjects in the Victorian Exhibition of Fine Arts between 1860 and 1864, when he moved to Sydney. He worked for a short time as principal cartoonist for Sydney Punch before his death in 1864. Reference: Kerr, J. (ed.), The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne: OUP, 1992
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Work is untitled. Title devised from plaque attached to frame and further research provided by the Library for the publication `Reading the Rooms' in 2023.
• General note
  
  Previously titled, Arrival of Burke & Wills at Flinders River 1861, 1862 / J. Greig
  "One of the few pictures, painted in the immediate aftermath of the expedition, showing the explorers triumphant rather than the circumstances surrounding their deaths. When Greig showed this picture in Melbourne late in 1862, the Age criticized him for straying `too far into the imaginative' by depicting Burke and Wills actually sighting the open sea." -- Bonyhady, T. Burke & Wills: from Melbourne to myth. Balmain: David Ell Press, 1991
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874530
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Greig 1862 -- signed and dated at lower left
• Name
  Burke and Wills Expedition (1860-1861)
  Burke, Robert O'Hara, 1821-1861
  Wills, William John, 1834-1861
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  explorers
  horses
  landscapes (artwork)
  swamps
  
• Place
  Flinders River (Qld.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Explorers - S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery (14 October - 26 November, 1978)
  Men and maps in Australia - State Library of New South Wales
  Burke and Wills: from Melbourne to myth - National Library of Australia (March, 2002 - June, 2002)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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