Paintings by Arthur Streeton, Alpine Club Gallery, 23 Savile Row, London, 26th March 1909, cat. no. 40, 60 gns Arthur Streeton's Venice, Guild Hall, Melbourne, 13-27 July 1909, cat. no. 8 National Gallery of Victoria Loan Exhibition of Australian Paintings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1925, cat. no. 28 (label attached verso)Upon his return home to St. John's Wood, Streeton wrote again of Venice to Frederick Delmer on 1 July 1908, "I did enjoy the place so much...I worked hard and did some good pieces...what a wonderful place it is." Later that year in October the newlyweds returned to Venice to continue on Streeton's Venetian scenes writing to Baldwin Spencer on 8 October 1908, "Here we are again in the fascinating old city. I have worked 2 afternoons lately in the centre of the Piazza San Marco...it is the heart of the city (and) always full of people so while Mrs S. sat some yards off on a seat of the 'Florian Café' reading 'Great Expectations' I sat surrounded by a great mob of about 40. It was extremely hot with so much humanity like a wall around me a wall 4 feet thick & all 98 temperature made me perspire. I've seen no one else tackle it here But I pulled it off...I've done several others also & shall work on these as soon as I get back to the Studio & I shall pick out a few to send to Melbourne for a trial." 3 In fact, Streeton's Venetian output was prodigious and in March 1909 he exhibited a solo show of La Serenissima scenes alongside English landscapes at the Alpine Club Gallery in Savile Row, London, the same year he was awarded the 3rd Class Medal at the Paris Old Salon for Australia Felix, 1907 (Art Gallery of South Australia). The Savile Row exhibition was well received by the London press and in July 1909 he opened Arthur Streeton's Venice at the Guild Hall in Melbourne