[Whaling scene, Boyd's Tower in the foreground] / [attributed to Oswald Brierly]
[Whaling scene, Boyd's Tower in the foreground] / [attributed to Oswald Brierly]
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Author / Creator
Date
probably between 1848-1894
Call Numbers
ML 1522
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Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 37.8 x 47.8 cm - watercolour and gouache over pencil
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Out of copyright
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Scope and Contents
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This watercolour depicts Twofold Bay, N.S.W. looking westward from the southern headland with Boyd’s Tower prominent in the immediate foreground and Mount Imlay towering over the surrounding countryside in the background. To the right of the tower is a group of three Aboriginal people and another group can be seen clustered around a fire among the...
Alternative Titles
Full title
[Whaling scene, Boyd's Tower in the foreground] / [attributed to Oswald Brierly]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Exhibited in 1982 in “Sir Oswald Walters Brierly: Sailing Ships and Ports of the Seven Seas” at the Hunter Museum of Art, Tennessee. The State Library of NSW lent five Brierly watercolours to this exhibition. Also used as an illustration in "Ben Boyd of Boydtown" by Marion Diamond, 1995.
Signature / Inscriptions
Unsigned. Crossed out handwritten inscription on backing "Property of Mrs. W.A.H. Brady, Datchet Bucks, England".
Attributions / Conjectures
During Brierly's five years in Twofold Bay Brierly is known to have sketched and painted and together with his daily journal entries, provide a vivid account of the whaling industry and his life in an isolated colonial settlement. He also developed a deep interest in the local indigenous people.
Date note
Undated. Dated from the time Boyd’s Tower was built to Brierly’s death.
Description source
Titled by cataloguer based on details provided by vendor.
Object History
Previously owned by Captain W.A.H. Brady and on his death in the 1960s it passed to his widow and then to her daughter, Beryl Millbank. It is believed that the painting was originally owned by Benjamin Boyd, (Brierly’s friend and employer in NSW) from whose niece the Brady family is descended.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from John Edwards, executor of the Estate of Mrs. Beryl Ledsam Millbank (nee Brady), Kew, Surrey, England, April 2018
Administrative / Biographical history
Oswald Brierly, was born in Chester in 1817. He studied art and naval architecture in London before travelling to Australia in 1842 aboard the yacht Wanderer with Benjamin Boyd. For some years Brierly managed Boyd's whaling and pastoral business, based in Twofold Bay. He died in London in 1894.
The Tower was built by Ben Boyd in 1847 to be a...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ML 1522
Record Identifier
YzOmjVD9
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Reference code
9642734
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