• Title
  Guests assembled at the wedding of Adelaide (second daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth Garling of Sydney) with Sloper Cox, youngest son of Captain William Cox of "Hobartville", Richmond, NSW
• Creator
  Frederick Garling, 1806-1873
• Call number
  SV/27
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1856. Dated from date of wedding
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  66038
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour and gouache drawing -- 1 backing board (now separated from drawing) with hand written inscription pasted to reverse - watercolour 31 x 25.1 cm : backing board 35.7 x 26.2 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Notes compiled by the previous owners of the drawing on the location of Hobartville and on the identity of a witness to the wedding is at PXn 874
  Colour transparency digitised 1999
  Digital order no:a128231
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  On reverse in pencil: At Hobartville
  Also on reverse are some old framing instructions written in pencil
  On a discarded backing board, now mounted with watercolour, is written in ink, probably in late nineteenth/early twentieth century hand: Guests assembled at the wedding of Adelaide (second daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth Garling of Sydney) with Sloper Cox, youngest son of Captain William Cox of "Hobartville", Richmond, NSW - The ceremony took place at St. Peters, Churh of England, Richmond on 19th February 1856 - The scene depicts the hall, and landing at top of stone stair case in the old "Hobartville" mansion - The painting is by F. Garling, the father of the bride - F. Garling 1856
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  interiors
  colonial art
  hallways
  stairs
  upper class people
  weddings
  
• Place
  Hobartville (Richmond, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Francis Greenway exhibition - Hyde Park Barracks (26 July, 1997 - 1 January, 1998)
  Frederick Garling exhibition - State Library of New South Wales (May, 2003 - August, 2003)

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