View from the verandah at Hobartville, seat of Mrs. W. Cox / Frederick Garling
View from the verandah at Hobartville, seat of Mrs. W. Cox / Frederick Garling
View from the verandah at Hobartville, seat of Mrs. W. Cox / Frederick Garling
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Author / Creator
Date
approximately 1860
Call Numbers
V/293
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Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 24.5 x 34.5 cm - watercolour on paper
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Out of copyright
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This is a landscape view, executed in watercolour on paper, and measuring 24.5 x 34.5cm. This figure-in-landscape watercolour picture represents the view from the verandah at Hobartville, on the outskirts of Richmond, N.S.W., with views to the Blue Mountains. The painting shows a man in a dark suit and top hat with two women in fashionably flounced...
Alternative Titles
Full title
View from the verandah at Hobartville, seat of Mrs. W. Cox / Frederick Garling
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Accompanied by wooden panels inscribed:
'View from the verandah at "Hobartville", seat of Mrs W. Cox, (Hobartville was built about the year 1820)'.
'Wombat Park, Daylesford'.
'By Garling?'
On the reverse of the watercolour is a label inscribed:
'From Mrs F.M. Brooke, Wombat Park, Daylesford, Victoria, per Miss Valarie Cox 64 Old...
Date note
The inclusion of the phrase ‘seat of Mrs W. Cox’ in the surviving caption label for this work, would suggest it post-dates William Cox Jnr’s death in 1850.
Description source
Accompanying wooden panel.
Object History
The Hon. Edward Cox, MLC. of Mulgoa, NSW, to Edward King Cox (1829-1883), M.L.C.
Thence by descent to Miss Valerie M. Cox, Sydney.
Thence by descent.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Leonard Joel Auction, 23 June 2015. Sales LJ8054, Lot 27.
Administrative / Biographical history
The Hobartville estate was purchased by the Cox family in 1816 and later became the home of William Cox Jnr (1789-1850), the eldest son of military officer, road maker and builder William Cox (1764-1837), best known for his supervision of the building of the road across the Blue Mountains in 1814, and his first wife Rebecca Upjohn. William Jnr marr...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
V/293
Record Identifier
nX6O2N0Y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nX6O2N0Y
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Reference code
1353332
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