Previously titled : Sydney Cove, c.1830 / painted by Mrs Heriot Anley

Titled, dated and attributed from donor dedication pasted on board, held at Ap 93/3

Digital order no:a928398

In the background is Kirribilli Point. Painted there on the waterfront of that point, reading right to left, is Wotonga now Admiralty House, Woodlands (depicted as a 2 storey house ) and Beulah. Wotonga was built 1842/43 and Beulah 1843/44; see Admiralty House / J M Kerr. National Trust, 1987.

In the foreground to the right is what appears t...

Conserved 2005

Reproduced in: The great south land : treasures of the Mitchell and Dixson Libraries and Dixson Galleries / [by] Suzanne Mourot with Paulette Jones. Melbourne : Sun Books, 1979.

Presented by Colonel Barnett N. Anley, 1935, who believed his mother had painted it.

Attribution to Harriot Anley is from family donor. Mrs Anley, however, had left the colony, in 1835, before many structures depicted in the work, such as New Government House, had been built.

Harriot Anley (note the correct spelling), nee Allez, was born on Guernsey and died before 1851. She married Capt. Philip Nicole Anley and they had 13...

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