• Title
  William Bradley drawings from his journal `A Voyage to New South Wales', ca. 1802
• Call number
  Safe 1/14
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  ca. 1802
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  412997
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : These items have been digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002.
  
• Physical Description
  29 drawings - watercolour - 13.2 x 19.3 cm inside framelines, 19 x 24.3 cm sheet or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  1. `Sirius, Supply & Convoy : Needle Point ENE 3 miles. Hyaena in Companny. 13 May 1787'
  (opp. p. 13)
  2. `Santa Cruz on the SE side of Teneriffe ; Sirius & Convoy in the Roads. June 1787. The Peak Shewing in a Gap betweeen two other Mountains'
  (opp. p. 19)
  3. `Villyanon, Convent del Gloria to the Aqueduct. Rio Janeiro 1787'
  (opp. p. 37)
  4. `In Rio Janeiro, looking towards the Entrance. 1787' (opp. p. 36)
  5. `City of St. Sebastians, Rio Janeiro : Sirius & Convoy at Anchor. 1787'
  (opp. p. 37)
  6. `View of a Fortified Bay on the E side the entrance of Rio Janeiro'
  (opp. p. 39)
  7. `Fortified Bay on the Wt side the entrance of Rio Janeiro Coast of Brazil'
  (opp. p. 38)
  8. `Cape Town, Table Mountain &c; Sirius & Convoy in Table Bay, November. 1787'
  (opp. p. 46)
  9. `Botany Bay. Sirius & Convoy going in : Supply & Agents Division in the Bay. 21 Janry 1788'
  (opp. p. 56)
  10. `Entrance of Port Jackson 27 Janury 1788'
  (opp. p. 65)
  11. `First interview with the Native Women at Port Jackson New South Wales'
  (opp. p. 70)
  12. `Sydney Cove, Port Jackson. 1788'
  (opp. p. 84)
  13. `View in Broken Bay New South Wales. March 1788' (opp. p. 90)
  14. `SW. Arm of Broken Bay New South Wales from an Island at the Entrance. Sepr 1789'
  (opp. p. 93)
  15. `North Arm of Broken Bay New South Wales from an Island at the entrance Sepr 1789'
  (opp. p. 92)
  16. `A View in upper part of Port Jackson ; when the Fish was shot.'
  (opp. p. 120)
  17. `View in Port Jackson from the South Head leading up to Sydney ; Supply sailing in.'
  (opp. p. 123)
  18. `Ice pass'd November 25. 1788. Latitude 57 [degrees] 30 [minutes] Sth. Longitude 288 [degrees] 00 [minutes] Et in the Sirius'
  (opp. p. 147)
  19. `Ice Islands thro' which the Sirius sailed December 14 1788 off Cape Horn'
  (opp. p. 150)
  20. `Taking of Colbee & Benalon. 25 Novr 1789'
  (opp. p. 182)
  21. `Part of the Reef & Landing places Sydney Bay ; Sirius & Supply endeavouring to work out of the Bay. March 19 1790'
  (opp. p. 194)
  22. `Part of the Reef in Sydney Bay, Norfolk Island, on which the Sirius was wreck'd. 19 March 1790.'
  (opp. p. 195)
  23. `Phillip & Nepean Islands. Justinian & Surprise standing into Sydney Bay. 23 August 1790'
  (opp. p. 211)
  24. `Governor's House at Sydney, Port Jackson 1791' (opp. p. 225)
  25. `Port Hunter, Duke of York's Island, May 1791'
  (opp. p. 260)
  26a. `NE. side of Hummock Island, off Sn end of Mindanoo. Augt 1791'
  (opp. p. 276)
  26b. `NE. side of Pulo Sanguy. S. 4 [degrees] Et S. 60 [degrees] W. Augt 1791'
  (opp. p. 276)
  27. `Water Spouts off the Coast of Java near Batavia. 24 Sepr 1791. Waakzamheydt'
  (opp. p. 290)
  28a. `Batavia'
  (opp. p. 292)
  28b. `Onrust in Batavia Bay'
  (opp. p. 292)
  29. `James's Valley St Helena 1792'
  (opp. p. 299)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  These watercolours are bound or hinged into William Bradley's journal `A Voyage to New South Wales', 1786-1792. They were probably painted some years after the events depicted as the entire journal seems to be a fair copy made ca. 1802.
  
  Facsimile publication (1969) available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room at ML REF.1/981/54A3-4. Another copy at ML 981/54A1-2
  Microfilm copy available at CY 1885
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823705
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled beneath image.
  Initialled `W.B.' or signed `W. Bradley', lower right.
• Topic
  official residences
  race relations
  
• Place
  Government House (Bridge St., Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Spring Cove (Sydney Harbour, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (January 2003 - March 2004)
  Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney, 1770-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (June 2006 - August 2006). Applies to: pl.12, 13, 17, 20
  Artist colony: drawing Sydney’s nature - State Library of New South Wales

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