[Port Jackson from Dawes Battery, ca. 1842 / after John Skinner Prout?]
[Port Jackson from Dawes Battery, ca. 1842 / after John Skinner Prout?]
[Port Jackson from Dawes Battery, ca. 1842 / after John Skinner Prout?]
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Date
ca. 1842
Call Numbers
ML 625 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 84
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Physical Description
Contents
1 painting - 49 x 68.5 cm (sight) in frame 66 x 85 cm. - oil on canvas
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Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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Full title
[Port Jackson from Dawes Battery, ca. 1842 / after John Skinner Prout?]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Work is untitled, unsigned and undated.
Appears a version of the lithograph, Port Jackson from Dawes' Battery, which was published in 1842 in `Sydney Illustrated'. Prout illustrated the volume while John Rae supplied the text. Sydney Illustrated is located at F981.1/P
It is unclear if this painting is by Prout himself, and therefore the o...
Contextual Information
Source
Possibly bequeathed by David Scott Mitchell, 1907; see item 1 of uncat Set 231, List of paintings deposited in room of Art Gallery, - painting no. 246: Oils Sydney from Dawes Point
Exhibited in
- Line of Sight: 19th century Australian landscape paintings
- Australian Colonial Art
- Looking East
- Painted panorama 1800-1870: paintings from the Mitchell and Dixson collections of the State Library of New South Wales
- Paintings from the Collection
State Library of New South Wales (10 March - 27 April, 1997)
State Library of New South Wales (July, 2000 - November, 2000)
S.H. Ervin Gallery (October, 1984 - November, 1984)
Blaxland Gallery (November, 1985 - November, 1985)
State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ML 625 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 84
Record Identifier
nmQdmV2n
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Reference code
457533
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