Sydney Cove from Dawes Point / watercolour by Frederick Garling
Sydney Cove from Dawes Point / watercolour by Frederick Garling
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1839 (dated from inscription on companion watercolour at DG SV1/42)
Call Numbers
DG SV1/47
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
Drawings - 18.8 x 29.9 cm. - 1 watercolour with underdrawing
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
This view looks across Dawes Point directly into First Government House and Circular Quay, which was in the process of being reclaimed and walled in stone - the major public works program in Sydney between 1837 and 1844.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Sydney Cove from Dawes Point / watercolour by Frederick Garling
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
This work is a pair with DG SV1/42 "View of Sydney from Woolloomooloo, looking west".
Digital order no:a128253
Signature / Inscriptions
Inscribed in ink on reverse "This View of Sydney Cove from Dawes Point is presented to Lewis Sebastian by his sincere friend M Metcalfe"
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Sir William Dixson, 1951
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Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DG SV1/47
Record Identifier
9Bv7GaD9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9Bv7GaD9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
423604
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