• Title
  Port Macquarie, ca. 1840 / by Joseph Backler
• Creator
  Joseph Backler, 1813-1895
• Call number
  ML 324
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, South Wall, no. 194
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1840
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  826186
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : ML 324
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 61.9 x 93.4 cm, in frame 81 x 112 cm
  
• Collection history
  The Public Library annual report of 1915-16 notes that "Two oil paintings of Port Macquarie, 1832-33", were presented by T. Dick, Esq.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned; the painting was earlier attributed to Peacock. However comparison with a signed painting by Backler (Port Macquarie, ML 354) showed stylistic similarities suggesting they were by the same artist. Dated and titled from previous label (removed 1966 and filed in old labels file). Old label read 'Port Macquarie, 1833, G.E. Peacock. Presented by Thos. Dick, Esq. in memory of his parents'. This information probably came from donor, correspondence not traced.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attributed, until cleaned, January 1965, to George Edward Peacock.
• Date note
  
  Dated from comparison with HC Allport drawings of Port Macquarie of 1839 (ML PXD 86), which show the town in a similar state of development to this oil.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  towns
  landscapes (views)
  
• Place
  Port Macquarie (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)

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