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Xarifa [yacht] - Property of C. Parbury Esqre / watercolour by Frederick Garling

Xarifa [yacht] - Property of C. Parbury Esqre / watercolour by Frederick Garling

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1l4EDa51

Xarifa [yacht] - Property of C. Parbury Esqre / watercolour by Frederick Garling

About this item

Full title

Xarifa [yacht] - Property of C. Parbury Esqre / watercolour by Frederick Garling

Date

ca. 1863

Call Numbers

SV/47

Record Identifier

1l4EDa51

Reference Code

132904

Formats

Physical Description

Contents

Drawings - 24 x 27.5 cm. - 1 watercolour with pencil underdrawing

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Fonds

Access and use

Copying Conditions

Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955

Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

More information

Alternative Titles

Full title

Xarifa [yacht] - Property of C. Parbury Esqre / watercolour by Frederick Garling

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Another version of this watercolour, also by Frederick Garling, is held in the Mitchell Library, Location Number: ML 87

Digital order no:a128223

Signature / Inscriptions

Title inscribed by the artist in pencil beneath image

Contextual Information

Source

Presented September 1996 under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme

Administrative / Biographical history

Charles Parbury was a son of Frederick Parbury, a partner in the 19th century Sydney mercantile firm Parbury, Lamb & Co. Charles Parbury was a vice-commodore of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron.
In 1864 Charles Parbury's Xarifa beat William Walker's Chance in a southerly gale over 140nm from Sydney to Newcastle and back.

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

SV/47

Record Identifier

1l4EDa51

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Reference code

132904

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