From the early 1800s, the British were encouraged to emigrate to Australia and become wealthy by working the land or, from the 1850s, by trying their luck on the goldfields. This work represents the changing popular response to emigration to Australia.When
Abraham Solomon painted
Second Class in 1854, circumstances in England and Australia had changed dramatically. Gold had been discovered in Australia, transportation had virtually ceased and the political print had lost its popularity in England.
Solomon’s painting shows a
young man leaving for the goldfields, his family accompanying him on the train journey. The work is aimed at a sentimental middle-class market – when will the mother see her son again?This painting forms part of a wider genre presenting free settlers (and gold rush emigrants) to Australia and other British empire colonies. After receiving accolades at the Royal Academy,
Second Class, together with its counterpart First Class 1954, became popular through printed reproductions,being produced as a lithographic print both in England and Germany.Roger ButlerText ©
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2010From: Anne Gray (ed),
Australian art in the
National Gallery of Australia,
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2002
Spørgsmål og svar
Er Second Class - the parting: malet i hånden eller er det et print?
Håndmalet: en uddannet maler kopierer Second Class - the parting: i olie på lærred.
Hvilken størrelse skal jeg vælge til Second Class - the parting: ?
Originalen måler 966 x 694 cm. Størrelserne går fra 25.8 x 38.7 cm (Dkr1340) til 164.8 x 246.8 cm (Dkr10182); tabellen på denne side viser de mest almindelige størrelser og deres priser.
Hvor lang leveringstid er der?
Levering tager 4 til 5 uger med gratis ekspresforsendelse over hele verden; en mulighed for hasteproduktion tilbydes på denne side. Du kan returnere varen inden for 100 dage med fuld refusion, uden betingelser.
Hvor befinder originalen af Second Class - the parting: sig?
Originalen er i National Gallery of Australias samling i Canberra.