• Title
  [Convict stockade at Cox's River Crossing near Hartley]
• Call number
  XV/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1831
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  52137
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour and pencil - 44.3 x 67.2 cm - drawing is heightened with gum arabic.
  
• Collection history
  Previously sold at Lawson's Painting Sale, Sydney, 5 March 1985, lot 145 and at Christie's, London, 17 May 1974, lot 108.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This drawing accords with descriptions of the stockade built at Cox's River near Hartley on the Great Western Road to house convicts involved in the construction of a road across the Blue Mountains to Bathurst: cf. James Kerr, "Out of Sight Out of Mind", S.H. Ervin Gallery 1988 p.29 Q725.60994/2 Mitchell Library; William Romaine Govett, "Sketches of New South Wales", Gaston Renard 1977, p.47-50 Q981/39 Mitchell Library.
  The drawing has been in the past attributed to Major General James Pattison Cockburn. When offered at auction at Christie's London on 17 May 1974 lot 108 it was described as being by Cockburn. It was also said to be indistinctly inscribed but no trace of this is now visible (1992). When offered at James R. Lawson's 5 March 1985 lot 145 it was described as "Australian colonial school" with an indistinct signature visible at lower left. At the Sotheby's auction of August 1992 it was "attributed to Major-General James Pattison Cockburn". The drawing has also been attributed to Cockburn in Joan Kerr, "Dictionary of Australian artists 1770-1870", Oxford Uni. Press 1992. However there is no evidence Cockburn visited Australia: he was in Canada until 1837, but this drawing was made in the early 1830s.
  Colour transparency digitised 1999
  Digital order no:a928893
  Artist unknown.
• Date note
  
  Dated from time of occupation of the stockade.
• Topic
  colonial art
  convicts
  prisons
  stockades
  
• Place
  Cox's River (N.S.W.)
  Hartley Region (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  On the Run. Daring Convict Escapes - State Library of New South Wales (6 November, 2006 - 9 February, 2007)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1792191

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