Government House Sydney, ca. 1860
Government House Sydney, ca. 1860
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1860
Call Numbers
ML 998 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 70
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Physical Description
Contents
1 painting - 15 ½ x 21 in. inside mount - oil
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Copy print : ML 998
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Government House Sydney, ca. 1860
Notes
General note
Transferred, 1989, from V1/Pub/Gov H/8
Signature / Inscriptions
Titled on spar in lower right hand side. Unsigned. 'Probably painted in the sixties' lettered on back of canvas below accession mark.
Attributions / Conjectures
Old catalogue card attributed to Haughton Forrest, without giving authority. A signed painting of Hobart by Haughton Forrest is in Mitchell Library and the style appears quite different, ships and buildings being drawn in great detail (Ref: ML 424)
Date note
Painted some time after 1875 as the attributed artist Haughton Forrest evidently did not come to Australia until after that date
The view is earlier than 1862 as tenders were approved in April of that year for Fort Macquarie sea wall (Ref: Government Gazette); Government House is without the portico on the Southern Side which has date 1873 o...
Description source
Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Dr A.H. Marks October 11, 1932
Exhibited in
- Paintings from the Collection
State Library of New South Wales (2018)
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ML 998 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 70
Record Identifier
YRlZD82n
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YRlZD82n
Other Identifiers
Reference code
879506
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