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Title
Distant view of Sydney / Mrs [Eliza] Thurston
Creator
Eliza Thurston, 1807-1873
Call number
DG SSV1/2
Level of description
fonds
Date

No date
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Watercolours
Reference code
866668
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 watercolour - 6 1/2 in. x 9 5/8 in. oval
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

For biographical details of the artist, Eliza Thurston, nee West (1807-1873) see:
Dictionary of Australian Artists Online. http://www.daao.org.au/main (accessed May, 2010)
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
General note

Digital order no:a4536001
Signatures / Inscriptions

In ink on back 'Painted by Mrs Thurston mother of Sir J.B. Thurston at one time Governor of Fiji obtained from her daughter now living at Sylvania Georges Riv [i.e. River] Feb. 1917'.
Attributions / conjectures

Attributed to Eliza Thurston by comparison with Sydney Harbour, ca. 1864? / Eliza Thurston (SSV1/c.1864?/1)
Subject
Women artists--Australia--19th century.
Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
Topic
views
Place
Sydney (N.S.W.)

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