• Title
  [Sydney Harbour Looking towards the Heads, 1848 / oil painting by Jacob Janssen]
• Creator
  Jacob Janssen, 1779-1856
• Call number
  ML 46
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 85
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1848
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  404736
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 76.5 x 102 cm, inside frame 83 x 108
  
• Scope and Content
  This work forms a pair with ML 45. Together they form a panorama of Sydney Harbour, stretching from the Heads to the Parramatta River, with the Blue Mountains in the distance. This painting's viewpoint is from above Vaucluse House, which appears centre left. The building with the enclosed courtyard to its right is the convict barracks where estate workders were confined at night. Watsons Bay is to the right of the tree.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Related Material
  [Sydney Harbour looking West, 1848 / oil painting by Jacob Janssen] (404704)
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a928107
• Topic
  colonial art
  harbours
  panoramic views
  trees
  
• Place
  New South Head Road (Eastern suburbs, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  South Head (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Vaucluse Bay (N.S.W.)
  Watsons Bay (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Line of Sight: 19th century Australian landscape paintings - State Library of New South Wales (10 March - 27 April, 1997)
  The Picture Gallery 1 - State Library of New South Wales (February, 1999 - November, 1999)
  Australian Colonial Art - State Library of New South Wales (July, 2000 - November, 2000)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3147469

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