Cockatoo Island, ca. 1864 / unknown artist

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Cockatoo Island, ca. 1864 / unknown artist

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Cockatoo Island, ca. 1864 / unknown artist

About this item

Full title

Cockatoo Island, ca. 1864 / unknown artist

Date

ca. 1864

Call Numbers

V/287

Record Identifier

YoldlqG9

Reference Code

1059133

Formats

Pictures and Drawings

Physical Description

Contents

1 drawing - drawing 21.5 x 34 cm, frame 42.7 x 54 cm - lead and brown pencil, on paper, torn edges, in a cream card mount and gilt/wood modern frame

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Fonds

Access and use

Copying Conditions

Out of copyright

Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Subjects

Subjects and topics

More information

Scope and Contents

Contents

The workshops are the focal point in a symmetrical view of the island. To the left is the dock with a ship and the buildings on the top of the southern end of the island. To the right is Biloela House on the highest point, other buildings on the waterfront and a flagstaff on the right hand point of the island

Alternative Titles

Full title

Cockatoo Island, ca. 1864 / unknown artist

Variant title

Titled by Jane Morley, art dealer

Notes

General note

Digital order no:a9832001

Signature / Inscriptions

Inscribed in pencil on the lower edge by two hands

Attributions / Conjectures

Water level drawing of the eastern side of Cockatoo Island, probably from either Robinson's Point, Birchgrove or Mann's Point, Greenwich

References:
Cockatoo Island from [Long Nose Point, ca. 1870's] (SPF / 816). http://www.acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?itemID=420882...

Date note

Dated by Jane Morley, art dealer

Contextual Information

Source

Purchased from Jane Morley, September 2013

Administrative / Biographical history

By 1858-1859, the engine house and six bays of the workshops at Cockatoo Island had been completed. By 1861 an extension to the workshops was under construction and it was completed by 1864. Six more bays and a central entrance had been added. Mann had referenced the Portsmouth Dockyard buildings in his plans. A cupola over the central entrance was...