• Title
  Government House Sydney, ca. 1860
• Call number
  ML 998
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 70
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1860
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  879506
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : ML 998
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 15 ½ x 21 in. inside mount
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
• General note
  
  Transferred, 1989, from V1/Pub/Gov H/8
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on spar in lower right hand side. Unsigned. 'Probably painted in the sixties' lettered on back of canvas below accession mark.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Old catalogue card attributed to Haughton Forrest, without giving authority. A signed painting of Hobart by Haughton Forrest is in Mitchell Library and the style appears quite different, ships and buildings being drawn in great detail (Ref: ML 424)
• Date note
  
  Painted some time after 1875 as the attributed artist Haughton Forrest evidently did not come to Australia until after that date
  
  The view is earlier than 1862 as tenders were approved in April of that year for Fort Macquarie sea wall (Ref: Government Gazette); Government House is without the portico on the Southern Side which has date 1873 on it (date on portico supplied by Miss J. Woodward Dec 1957)
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  official buildings
  official residences
  sailing boats
  fortifications
  
• Place
  Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Fort Macquarie (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)

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