• Title
  View of the Town and Cove of Sydney, New South Wales, c.1811 / aquatint print by J. Moffat
• Creator
  James Moffat, 1775-1815
• Call number
  SV1/Har/Syd C/3
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca.1811
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  52181
• Physical Description
  Prints - 1 aquatint engraving - 25.2 x 37.6 cm. plate size
  
• General note
  
  Title printed beneath image
  "I. Moffat sculp." engraved at right below view
  Dimensions from Mitchell Library Pictures card catalogue
  Other impressions of this print are held at DG SV1/55 and DL Pe 281, which see for biographical and dating notes. For identification and dating of Billy Blue's house, the Judge-Advocate's house, the commissariat store and other buildings in this view, see First views of Australia 1788-1825 : a history of early Sydney / Tim McCormick ... [et al.] ; foreword by Bernard Smith. Chippendale, N.S.W. : David Ell Press in association with Longueville Publications, 1987
  Reproduced in half-tone for Blake & Hargreaves Christmas card 1953, filed at SPF/Syd-Har & I.-Sydney Cove, with notes about dating
  Digital order no:a1528040
• Topic
  colonial art
  engravings
  harbours
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sydney Harbour : Seldom Scene - State Library of New South Wales (5 March - 27 March, 2007)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1829578

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