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[View of Darling Harbour, Sydney, ca. 1850]
[View of Darling Harbour, Sydney, ca. 1850]
About this item
Full title
Date
[probably dates from the early 1850s]
Call Numbers
SV/102
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Physical Description
Contents
Drawings - image 13.2 x 21.3 cm. - monochrome watercolour
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Looking along Kent Street, probably from beneath the site of the old Military windmill. The chimney visible at the right of the image rises up from the premises of the Australian Gaslight Company.
Alternative Titles
Full title
[View of Darling Harbour, Sydney, ca. 1850]
Notes
General note
Removed from frame Dec 2003
The Library holds similar watercolour views in the Dixson Galleries collection: `Sydney, 1851' and `Darling Harbour, 1859' by W.S. Hatton (DG V1A/30-31) ; `Looking up Darling Harbour from Flagstaff Hill' by Samuel Elyard (DG SV*/Sp Coll/Elyard/3)
Digital order no:a128604
Signature / Inscriptions
Australian Port -- in pencil on reverse of frame
"Cockle Bay (Darling Harb) / looking across to East Balmain" -- in pencil (different hand) on reverse of frame
"R 700 / 20 + 7" -- on label on reverse of frame
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Christie's Sale, Sydney, 9 Dec 2003, Lot 269
Previously sold at Sotheby's, Bond Street, London, 9-10 July, 1962, Lot 250 "An Australian Port" (15 pounds to Callil). Reference: Catalogues of sales [microform] / Sotheby & Co. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1973-<1983>. [annotated with prices and names of buy...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SV/102
Record Identifier
92eVZOxY
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Reference code
431583
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