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Shire of Toodyay > Records

STEAM TRAIN

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Overview

Unsigned oil painting of steam locomotive, pulling six red carriages, travelling through a vallley.
Australian landscape of cultivated fields, scattered trees and hills in the background, typical of the Avon Valley.
The train is travelling toward the viewer, around a bent past a set of signals.
Handwritten on back 'Paul Cassam Westrail 1984 Station Master Toodyay-Milling.
Wooden frame, oil on board.

Historical information

Left on wall of property (8 Fiennes Street, Toodyay) after it was sold in June 2015.
New owner, Lawrence Tan, donated this painting along with another artwork also left to museum.
Property dates from the nineteenth century and is known as 'Fred Green's Cottage' on the Shire of Toodyay's Municipal Inventory.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2015.5

Item type

Themes

Art and Design
Social History
Transport

Material

Width

85 cm

Height or length

49.5000 cm

Inscriptions and markings

Paul Cassam

Statement of significance

Aesthetic: Historic: Provenance:

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Historic significance

Shire of Toodyay

Shire of Toodyay

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