• Title
  Item 03: Whales in Sight. / A shore whaling party coming out of Twofold Bay, 1844 / watercolour drawing by Oswald W. Brierly
• Creator
  Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.) Brierly, 1817-1894
• Call number
  ML 93
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1883
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  440091
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour, in rectangular shaped wooden gilt frame with raised outer edge and applied composition corner moulds that have an ornamental design of grapes and vine leaves. - 23.6 x 35.7 cm. (sight) ; 40.5 x 51.5 cm. frame
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Provenance of item derived from a list of material that was deposited with the National Art Gallery (Art Gallery of N.S.W.), prior to the Mitchell Library's opening in 1910.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 844406
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled from inscription in black ink on mount below image.
  Signed and dated at lower left of image, "Oswald W. Brierly / 1883"
  Directly beneath image on mount to indicate landmark positions, "Boyds Tower Mount Imlay Boyd Town Eden"
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Galatea (Ship).
  
• Topic
  coasts
  picture frames
  seascapes (artwork)
  vessels (watercraft)
  whaling
  
• Place
  Boydtown (N.S.W.)
  Eden (N.S.W.)
  Mount Imlay (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly - State Library of New South Wales (18 October, 2004 - 6 February, 2005)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1083059

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