Butterflies and moths, 1884 / Morey
- Bib ID:
- 8132999
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Morey, artist
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Drawer 93 #PIC/20891 copy
- Description:
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- 1884
- 1 paintings: watercolour, ink and wash on paper ; on sheet 30.4 x 21.4 cm
- Biography/History:
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The artist of this work is possibly Edward Morey, 1832-1907, born in Finsborough, near Kent, England and died in Ballarat at the age of 75. From the age 13 Morey was an apprentice in the merchant navy. In 1853 he was part of a co-operative of gold-seeking sailors with great success around the Ballarat region of Victoria. Morey witnessed the attack on Eureka Stockade on 3 December 1854 and was one of the first to tend the wounded diggers. In 1855 he married Mary Ann and had one daughter. He continued to follow the gold rush of 1861 to Otago, New Zealand, until his return to Ballarat around 1876 where he became an investor, landowner, and founder and director of many companies. In 1884 Morey became patron of the new Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Public Association and later served on the gallery council, the committees of the School of Mines and Old Colonists' Association. In 1888 he was elected to the Ballarat City Council and mayor in 1894.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer from acquisition documentation.
- Inscriptions: "[L.?] Morey 1884"--In black lower left.
- Condition: Folds, creases, stained, loss.
- PIC Drawer 93 #PIC/20891 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2331672687
- Source of Acquisition:
- Donated by Pamela Mountford, 2020.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1884
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1884
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