• Title
  No.2 Port Jackson N.S.W. The Floating Light - (Morning), 1846 / painted by G. E. Peacock
• Creator
  G. E. (George Edwards) Peacock, b. 1806
• Call number
  DG 334
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 87
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1846
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  421104
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on board - approx. 15.2 x 20.3 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  An unusual and sparse view of the Harbour, Peacock depicts the buoy and manned light vessel, the 'Rose', which marked the treacherous Sow and Pigs Reef, inside the Heads off Watson's Bay.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Companion piece with `No.1 The Heads of Port Jackson...', 1846 / painted by G. E. Peacock. Location Number: DG 333 Dixson Galleries
  
  Reference: George Edwards Peacock exhibition catalogue / State Library of New South Wales, 2002.
  
  Part of a set of six small paintings and one larger one (DG 332-DG 338). Extract from sales catalogue pasted on stretcher of the larger painting (DG 332) says that the six small paintings by Peacock were formerly the property of Thomas Arnold Wise and that the seven were believed to have been brought to England by Sir W. Manning, Chief Justice of N.S.W. or by Mr Justice Wise.
  
  Painting was re-framed with the generous support of the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001-2002.
  Digital order no:a128055
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled, signed and dated "G. E. Peacock, 1846" -- on label on reverse
• Topic
  buoys
  coasts
  colonial art
  dawns
  harbours
  headlands
  seagulls
  vessels (watercraft)
  
• Place
  Port Jackson (N.S.W.)
  Sow & Pigs Reef
  
• Exhibited in
  
  George Edwards Peacock - State Library of New South Wales (13 May - 1 August, 2002)
  Pride of place - State Library of New South Wales (September, 2004 - November, 2004)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3193027

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