• Title
  [View of Darling Harbour, Sydney, ca. 1850]
• Call number
  SV/102
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [probably dates from the early 1850s]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  431583
• Physical Description
  Drawings - monochrome watercolour - image 13.2 x 21.3 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Looking along Kent Street, probably from beneath the site of the old Military windmill. The chimney visible at the right of the image rises up from the premises of the Australian Gaslight Company.
• General note
  
  Removed from frame Dec 2003
  The Library holds similar watercolour views in the Dixson Galleries collection: `Sydney, 1851' and `Darling Harbour, 1859' by W.S. Hatton (DG V1A/30-31) ; `Looking up Darling Harbour from Flagstaff Hill' by Samuel Elyard (DG SV*/Sp Coll/Elyard/3)
  Digital order no:a128604
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Australian Port -- in pencil on reverse of frame
  "Cockle Bay (Darling Harb) / looking across to East Balmain" -- in pencil (different hand) on reverse of frame
  "R 700 / 20 + 7" -- on label on reverse of frame
• Topic
  colonial art
  harbours
  streetscapes
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Australian Gas Light Company (Jenkins Street, Millers Point, N.S.W.)
  Darling Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Kent Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3206354

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