• Title
  No.4 Government House and Fort Macquarie Sydney N.S.W. from the Botanical Gardens, 1846 / painted by G. E. P. [Peacock]
• Creator
  G. E. (George Edwards) Peacock, b. 1806
• Call number
  DG 336
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 88
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1846
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  421108
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on board - 15.3 x 20.7 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  This view looks back from the eastern point of Farm Cove to Government House and Fort Macquarie (the site of the Sydney Opera House). The lushness of the Gardens is emphasised by the eclectic array of exotic and indigenous plants (such as the Gymea lily) in the foreground.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  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:a128056
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled, signed & dated "G.E.P. 1846" -- on label on reverse
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  fortifications
  gardens
  harbours
  lilies
  native plants
  official residences
  
• Place
  Farm Cove (N.S.W.)
  Fort Macquarie (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)
  Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens - State Library of New South Wales (September, 2016 - January, 2017)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3197177

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