• Title
  [View of Sydney from the west side of the Cove, ca. 1806 / John Eyre]
• Creator
  J. (John) Eyre, 1771-
• Call number
  XV/201
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca. 1806]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  457675
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour - (sight in frame lines) 40.2 x 66.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  A second private mill now appears for the first time on the east side of the Cove. It is the post Mill owned by Kable and built in 1805. Simeon Lord's house adjoining the bridge across the Tank Stream is having a 4th floor added. The red brick internal walls may be seen. The warehouse is being built next to it near the shore.
  
  Reference:
  First Views of Australia / Tim McCormick
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Frame at F428
  
  Transferred from DG 217
  Transferred from DG V1/75, 19/11/2018
  
  Copy Print : DG V1/75 available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:Album ID : 971363
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  `I.E.Del.t' -- lower left hand corner
• Date note
  
  Untitled and undated. Dated because the buildings are shown in the same state as in the view DG V1/5 which is dated 1806. Covers approximately the same area as Eyre's views from the west side published by Booth, no. 1 and half of no. 2
• Subject
  Cities and towns--New South Wales--Sydney--Pictorial works.
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Sir William Dixson Galleries.
  
• Place
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  Tank Stream (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Lewin: Wild Art - State Library of New South Wales (5 March - 28 October, 2012)

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