• Title
  "Xarifa" / Chas Parbury, Esq. / Vice-Commodore / [watercolour by Frederick Garling]
• Creator
  Frederick Garling, 1806-1873
• Call number
  ML 87
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1863
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  404688
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour and gouache with underdrawing - 29.7 x 50.3 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  In 1864 Charles Parbury's Xarifa beat William Walker's Chance in a southerly gale over 140nm from Sydney to Newcastle and back. The two men were wealthy foundation members of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron formed just 18 months earlier.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 937326
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on backing board, possibly in contemporary hand
• Name
  Xarifa (yacht)
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  sailing boats
  yacht racing
  yachts
  
• Place
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Frederick Garling exhibition - State Library of New South Wales (5 May - 10 August, 2003)

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