This work appears as Lot 47a in the catalogue.

Provenance: Private Collection, Auckland Purchased by current owner, International Art Centre, 1976

Exhibited Otago Art Society, November,1891, No. 212 Purchased by E M Thomson, Dunedin Sold at International Art Centre, March, 1976 to current owners.

Illustrated p 280, Plate 2b Works of Frances Hodgkins in New Zealand E H McCormick, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1954

Reference p 123 & p 224, Catalogue no. 15 Works of Frances Hodgkins in New Zealand E H McCormick, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1954 & further reference Otago Daily Times, 21 November, 1892

A Game of Marbles (Plate 2b) Group of five children posed before brick wall pierced by green gate; two boys at left and right playing marbles; errand boy with basket and two small girls watching; small dog in right foreground. The work has been dated and identified from a contemporary review referring to the dog which 'appears to be watching what is going forward' 'the background of wall', and 'the boy who is about to play'. Similar models and setting are found in No. 14 ( Boy, Girl & Dog ) Text page 123 Works of Frances Hodgkins in New Zealand E H McCormick, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1954