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City of Fremantle Art Collection > Records

State Battery, Cue

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Cedric Baxter

1966

Overview

Pastel and pencil on coloured paper

Historical information

This landscape drawing was purchased with funds from the Visual Arts Board in 1973.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-7-6

Item type

Themes

Art and Design
Environment
Mining and Resources

Material

Width

67 cm

Height or length

39 cm

Contextual Information

This drawing depicts a state battery in Cue, a small town in the mid-west region of Western Australia, 620km North-East of Perth. State batteries were used to crush ore during gold mining operations.

Keywords

Place made

Western Australia
Australia

Year

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Historic significance

Comparative significance criteria

Object’s condition or completeness

Well provenanced

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