• Title
  Sydney Cove from Dawes Point / watercolour by Frederick Garling
• Creator
  Frederick Garling, 1806-1873
• Call number
  DG SV1/47
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1839 (dated from inscription on companion watercolour at DG SV1/42)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  423604
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour with underdrawing - 18.8 x 29.9 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  This view looks across Dawes Point directly into First Government House and Circular Quay, which was in the process of being reclaimed and walled in stone - the major public works program in Sydney between 1837 and 1844.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This work is a pair with DG SV1/42 "View of Sydney from Woolloomooloo, looking west".
  Digital order no:a128253
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed in ink on reverse "This View of Sydney Cove from Dawes Point is presented to Lewis Sebastian by his sincere friend M Metcalfe"
• Topic
  bays
  ships
  
• Place
  Circular Quay (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Dawes Point (N.S.W.)
  Government House (Bridge St., Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Frederick Garling exhibition - State Library of New South Wales (5 May - 10 August, 2003)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3179229

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