• Title
  Hawkesbury flood in 1816 taken from Crofton Cottage Windsor No.4
• Call number
  V1B/Wind/16
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1816
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  404920
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : MAV/FM4/2338, Frame 77(b)
  Copy print : V1B/Wind/16
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  1 drawings - watercolour - 28.5 x 41 cm inside framelines; 33.1 x 46.2 cm sheet
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  "In the Mitchell Library, Sydney, there is a very interesting sketch of this flood when it attained its highest point on Sunday, June 2, 1816. The sketch is in four sections, and was evidently made with great care, though unfortunately the name of
  its author is unknown" John Tebbutt -- The Gazette, 14 September 1912
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  A severe flood swept the Hawkesbury River in June 1816.
  
  Notes in pencil on back.
  Artist unknown.
  Digital order no:a1528471
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled beneath image, being a later transcription of an earlier title. Title repeated, in a twentieth century hand, at lower right.
• Subject
  Floods--New South Wales--Hawkesbury River.
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  
• Place
  Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Rage for Curiosity - State Library of New South Wales (1 September, 1997 - 11 January, 1998)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3140346

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