The Foundation of Perth 1829
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The Foundation of Perth 1829 is a 1929 oil-on-canvas painting by George Pitt Morison. It depicts a reconstruction of the ceremony by which the town of Perth, Western Australia was founded on 12 August 1829. Morison painted the work as part of Western Australia's centenary celebrations, and presented it to the Art Gallery of Western Australia in February 1929.[1]
The painting took George Pitt Morison almost eighteen months to research and paint. He studied a number of contemporary accounts of the ceremony, and had access to photographs of the people present.
The official ceremony depicted in the image was held on a small hill overlooking the
Other people depicted in the work include Lieutenant Governor
The Foundation of Perth 1829 has become an "enduring and influential image" (Gooding 1989) in the
References
- ^ ISSN 0314-7525.
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- ^ "Perth Names". The West Australian. Vol. 54, no. 16, 298. Western Australia. 24 September 1938. p. 5. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "William Lane Milligan". Australian Medical Pioneers Index. 29 May 2019. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ISBN 0-85564-159-2.
- ISBN 0-85564-278-5. Archivedfrom the original on 7 April 2024. Retrieved 26 April 2024.