• Title
  On Top of the Tanks, 2000 / painting by Jeff Rigby
• Call number
  XV/175
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  2000
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  1006280
• Physical Description
  1 painting - gouache on paper - visible image 60 x 68 cm, on paper 66 x 78.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Work began on the construction of the BHP Co. Ltd. Iron and Steelworks at Port Waratah Newcaste on 3 January 1913. The Steelworks Act of 1912 had decreed that the works be built in five years, it was completed in less than half that time. Following the production of the first rail on 24 April 1915, the works were officially opened by the Governor General on 2 June 1915. In April 1997 the intent to close the Newcastle Steelworks was announced. In 1999 the steelworks closed and in 2001, the site, its plant and equipment were dismantled, removed and demolished.
  Reference:
  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritage (accessed 09/02/2017)
• Scope and Content
  Gouache painting, 2000, from the artists BHP Newcastle Steelworks series in the Places of Industry collection, 2006
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years
  Copyright holder:: Jeff Rigby
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Jeff Rigby
• General note
  
  Exhibited in 'Places of Industry; When Workers Unite', Trades and Labor Council, Broken Hill, 2006
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated lower right 'Jeff Rigby 2000'. Inscribed lower centre margin, 'On Top of the Tanks'.
• Subject
  Art, Australian--20th century.
  Artists--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Artists, Australian--20th century.
  Steel industry and trade--New South Wales--History.
  Broken Hill Proprietary Company.
  
• Topic
  blast furnaces
  
• Place
  Newcastle (N.S.W.)
  Newcastle Steel Works (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE10366154

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