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Collins Street
George Hyde Pownall, 1876-1932ca. 1912
State Library Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
The companion to Pownall's ‘Bourke Street’, also in the State Library Victoria's collection, this Melbourne streetscape looks west down Collins Street from Russell Street, a location still favoured by artists today. Featuring a cable tram descending the hill, the painting captures the charm of one of the world's great Victorian-era cities.
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Details
- Title: Collins Street
- Creator: George Hyde Pownall, 1876-1932
- Date: ca. 1912
- Location: Collins Street, Melbourne
- Rights: This work is out of copyright. No copyright restrictions apply.
- lithograph: Painting
- View more information about this image in the State Library Victoria catalogue: http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:SLV_VOYAGER1764213
- View a full-size version of this image: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/172535
- Physical dimensions: 68.8 x 111.5 cm. in frame 95.0 x 139.3 cm.
- Medium: Oil on millboard
- A.E. Ferris: George Pownall was born in England and exhibited landscape paintings in Leeds, Liverpool and Nottingham. A respected tenor who sang in the Westminster Abbey choir, Pownall was also an accomplished pianist, performing with several theatre orchestras as both pianist and conductor. Arriving in Australia in 1911, Pownall toured with Sir Edward Branscombe's Jesters and Dandies' Company and later travelled to Queensland with the Courtiers Touring Theatre Company. Between engagements, he conducted the Lyric Theatre Orchestra in St Kilda, and worked as a scene painter with the Bijou and Tivoli theatres, both in Bourke Street.
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