View of Sydney when St Mary's was building, ca. 1830 / Fanny Macleay
View of Sydney when St Mary's was building, ca. 1830 / Fanny Macleay
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Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1830
Call Numbers
SV1/ca.1830/1
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 watercolour - 6 x 28.5 cm
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Issue Copy
Digitised
Finding aids
Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 686 -
Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 871 -
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Full title
View of Sydney when St Mary's was building, ca. 1830 / Fanny Macleay
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no:a1528651
Attributions / Conjectures
The work is unsigned, formerly entered under the name of Alexander Macleay. Attributed to Fanny Macleay by Joy Huges, private researcher, who noted that the inscription on the reverse side of the drawing is almost certainly in the hand of Fanny Macleay as compared in the Macarthur Papers, Letters from Fanny Leonora Macleay 2 Jan. 1927-11 Nov. 1831...
Date note
Approximately dated from the buildings depicted, eg St Mary's Cathedral is unfinished. Reference: Kerr, Joan and Broadbent, James. Gothick taste in the colony of New South Wales. Sydney, David Ell Press, 1980
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SV1/ca.1830/1
Record Identifier
9PQ8223n
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9PQ8223n
Other Identifiers
Reference code
844892
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