Xarifa [yacht] - Property of C. Parbury Esqre / watercolour by Frederick Garling
Xarifa [yacht] - Property of C. Parbury Esqre / watercolour by Frederick Garling
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Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1863
Call Numbers
SV/47
Record Identifier
Reference Code
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
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Xarifa [yacht] - Property of C. Parbury Esqre / watercolour by Frederick Garling
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
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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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1l4EDa51
Other Identifiers
Reference code
132904
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