• Title
  East Boyd 1847 / watercolour drawing by Oswald Brierly
• Creator
  Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.) Brierly, 1817-1894
• Call number
  ML 1348
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1847
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  414142
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - pencil and watercolour, with gouache, on tinted paper - 34 x 65 cm
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  When this watercolour was painted, in 1847, Oswald Brierly was the manager of Boyd Town and East Boyd. In his journal, on 28 October 1847, he noted 'worked at a drawing of E Boyd" : ref. A 541 Mitchell Library Manuscripts collection.
  
  The stone cottage on the bluff overlooking the bay was Brierly's residence, known as 'Merton'. It was demolished early in the 20th century to make way for a much larger home, 'Edrom', erected by J. R. Logan c. 1913.
  
  The watercolour appears to be the basis of John Carmichael's etching "East Boyd. N.S.W.", which was published in W.H. Wells', "A Geographical Dictionary, or Gazetteer of the Australian colonies...", Sydney, 1848, opp. p.69.
  In this watercolour Brierly appears to have contracted the beach in the foreground which is in fact several hundred metres long. It is now known as Fisheries Beach.
  Frame filed at F356
  Digital order no:a128028
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  At lower right in watercolour "East Boyd / 1847"
  At lower left in watercolour "O W [B?] Brierly"
• Topic
  sailing ships
  whalers (ships)
  whaling stations
  
• Place
  East Boyd (N.S.W.)
  Twofold Bay (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly - State Library of New South Wales (18 October, 2004 - 6 February, 2005)

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