• Title
  Near Pennant Hills Wharf - Parramatta River - My House, 1854
• Creator
  Frederick Garling, 1806-1873
• Call number
  SSV/25
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1854 (signed in pencil at lower right)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  81048
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - with pencil underdrawing, on card, mounted onto paper - 14.3 x 21.1 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a128229
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed in ink beneath image at left "Near Pennant Hills Wharf - Parramatta River"
  Inscribed in ink at lower right "My House F.G."
  Inscribed in pencil at lower right "1854"
  On the reverse of the drawing's mount is written in biro a description of its provenance. The drawing passed from Garling's widow to their son, then grandson and then to his widow, and from her to the donor of the drawing to the Mitchell Library
  A label stuck to mounting paper is inscribed "Given to my wife Betty by me R.W. Garling (Pat) / F Garling's home at Ermington". Around this inscription is some biographical information about Garling : it states that Garling occupied the home (built by Major Edmund Lockyer) between 1851 and 1854, and that it was adjacent to Ermington House
• Topic
  houses
  rivers
  
• Place
  Parramatta River (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works.
  Pennant Hills (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Frederick Garling exhibition - State Library of New South Wales (5 May - 10 August, 2003)

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