• Title
  [Campbell's Wharf and Sydney Cove from Dawes Point / possibly by Freeman Brothers or Prout]
• Creator
  Freeman Brothers & Prout
• Call number
  SV/12
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  May 1864
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  52507
• Physical Description
  1 photograph - albumen - 16.8 x 37.4 cm.
  
• General note
  
  James and William Freeman worked with Victor Prout in Sydney between 1860 and 1868. Freeman Brothers or Prout may have been responsible for this image. References: The mechanical eye in Australia ... / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury. Melbourne : Oxford University Press,1985, p. 164, 185. Location number: Q770.994/4 Mitchell Library and The dictionary of Australian artists / Joan Kerr. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992, p.647-648. Location number : Q709.94/87A
  A description of the photographic process using a Sutton water-filled lens panoramic camera is given in the Sydney Morning Herald 19 May 1864. See also The dictionary of Australian artists / Joan Kerr. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992, p.276-278. Location number: Q709.94/87A Mitchell Library
  Another original photoprint of the same image, extending slightly further at left and right edges, is at SV1/HAR CIRC/9 (Pic. Acc.611) Mitchell Library
  Digital order no:a128716
• Topic
  ships
  warehouses
  jetties & wharves
  
• Place
  Campbell's Wharf (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Dawes Point (N.S.W.)
  Rocks, The (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A look around: panoramas from the Mitchell Library collections - State Library of New South Wales (28 May - 31 August, 1990)
  Eye 4 photography - State Library of New South Wales (January, 2005 - May, 2005)
  Dockside : Sydney's working harbour, 1840-1875 - State Library of New South Wales (May, 2008 - August, 2008)

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