• Title
  Government House Sydney, N.S.W., from the statue of Sir Rich.d Bourke, ca. 1845 / painted by G. E. Peacock
• Creator
  G. E. (George Edwards) Peacock, b. 1806
• Call number
  ML 657
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, West Wall, no. 20
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1845
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  421074
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on board - approx. 14 x 19 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  View concentrates as much on the recently completed Government House, as it does the Harbour.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The Statue of Sir Richard Bourke, a popular Governor of NSW between 1831-1837, was unveiled in April 1842. At the ceremony Governor Gipps remarked that the view from the site - then at the top of the Botanic Gardens but since moved to in front of the Mitchell Library - was equal in beauty and loveliness to any other in the world.
  Peacock painted this view in a number of variations (see ML 239a)
  Reference: George Edwards Peacock exhibition catalogue. State Library of New South Wales, 2002
  Digital order no:a128044
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on label on reverse
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  gardens
  official residences
  statues
  
• Place
  Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Royal Botanic Gardens (Sydney, 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
  IE3195638

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