• Title
  [The Boating Season, Woolloomooloo Bay ca.1887] / painted by Alfred James Daplyn
• Creator
  Alfred James Daplyn, 1844-1926
• Call number
  ML 495
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 83
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1887 ?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  456932
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 54 x 73 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  In 1887 Daplyn exhibited a painting at the Royal Art Society of NSW annual exhibition titled "The Boating Season, Woolloomoolo Bay": the catalogue notes it was offered for sale for 25 pounds. It is possible that this is that painting, as it appears to be set on the east side of Woolloomooloo Bay, looking up the bay towards Cremorne and Mosman on the north shore.
  Donor, however, believed that the scene is said to show foundation members of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. This seems unlikely as the subject matter is very casual, rather than commemorative. Furthermore 19 men were involved in the estabslishment of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron.
  When presented to the LIbrary in 1961 the painting was titled ""Boating Scene in Sydney Harbour"".
  Digital order no:a1528334
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  A. J. Daplyn -- signed at lower left
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  boating
  rowing boats
  jetties & wharves
  yachts
  
• Place
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sydney Harbour : Seldom Scene - State Library of New South Wales (5 March - 27 March, 2007)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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