• Title
  Landing [waler] horses from Australia ; Catamarans and Masoolah boat, Madras, c.1834
• Call number
  DG SV*/Hors/1(a-b)
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  c.1834
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  423868
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 2 watercols. - 15.2 x 24 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright
• General note
  
  Unsigned and undated
  Titled from ink inscriptions on reverse sides of drawings
  Attributed to the "Company School", possibly J.B. East (see notes on ML File 609/74 and Pxn 747)
  Approximately dated from information about shipments of horses from NSW to Madras. Source: Walers: a history of Australian horses abroad, 1834-1941 / Alexander Yarwood. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1989
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874482
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "The small boats are catamarans, the large one is a Masoolah boat - a correct picture - the boats go through the surf exactly as depicted" -- inscribed in ink on reverse (1b)
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  boats
  catamarans
  horses
  Indians
  surf
  
• Place
  Madras (India)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  India, China, Australia : Trade and Society 1788-1850 - Museum of Sydney. Applies to: 1(a)
  Equinity - State Library of New South Wales (October 2007 - December 2007). Applies to: 1(a)

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