• Title
  City and Harbour of Sydney New South Wales from the height above Vaucluse, ca. 1855 / [painted by G. E. Peacock]
• Creator
  G. E. (George Edwards) Peacock, b. 1806
• Call number
  ML 155
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, West Wall, no. 13
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1855
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  421041
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - approx. 37 x 89 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  The artist is standing close to what is now the Vaucluse Reservoir. In the left hand corner can be seen the famous Henrietta Villa on Point Piper. The windmills on the ridge of Woolloomooloo are silhouetted against the skyline.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Painting was owned by Gideon Lang, a wealthy pastoralist. He took it to England when he returned there in 1858.
  Reference: George Edwards Peacock exhibition catalogue. State Library of New South Wales, 2002
  Digital order no:a128036
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  unsigned
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians.
  
• Topic
  bush
  colonial art
  harbours
  islands
  landscapes (views)
  ships
  windmills
  
• Place
  Henrietta Villa (Point Piper, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Vaucluse (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  George Edwards Peacock - State Library of New South Wales (13 May - 1 August, 2002)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3151636

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