• Title
  The French ironclad corvette, Atalante, in the Fitzroy Dock, Sydney Harbour, 1873
• Creator
  American & Australasian Photographic Company
• Call number
  ON 4/Box 39/no. 2
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  Aug 1873
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  65485
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 transparency - glass - 8 in. x 10 in.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  Out of copyright
• General note
  
  See also items PXA 4999 Box 56 Nos 228-229
  Titled from illustration in the Town and Country Journal, 23 Aug 1873
  Merlin describes this image "... One of the solar pictures which I took on the occasion of my last visit to the Atalante, of which an engraving accompanies the present pen-and-ink sketch, is taken from the rocks to the north-west, and shows her "ram," with its massive projecting extremity of solid brass, her swelling sides, portholes, section of the dock, and men at work. The steps to the bottom of the basin as well as itardepth [i.e.interdepth], are fairly indicated. Probally there is no one more difficult to please in procuring a picture of this kind than the landscape photographer himself. I may therefore be permitted to say in behalf of the one referred to, that it gave me satisfaction. ... " Quote from `The French ironclad, Atalante / by Beaufoy Merlin, (Photographer to Holtermann's Exhibition.)' in the Town and Country Journal, 23 Aug 1873 (p.241)
  Digital order no:a2824700
  Copy print available: PXA 4999 Available on Open Access shelves in Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room
• Name
  France. Marine
  
• Subject
  Atalante (French ironclad)
  
• Topic
  dry docks
  warships
  steam corvettes
  
• Place
  Cockatoo Island Dockyard (N.S.W.)
  

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