• Title
  Shipping Horses / For the Government of India at Millers Point Wharf - Darling Harbour N.S. Wales / watercolour by Frederick Garling
• Creator
  Frederick Garling, 1806-1873
• Call number
  DG SV1A/9
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1847
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  404982
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - watercolour and gouache with underdrawing. Printed label attached to bottom of drawing - 33 x 45.5 cm image; 35.1 x 45.5 cm with label
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• General note
  
  During the 1840s an important trade developed exporting Australian horses to India. This watercolour depicts them being loaded into a ship at Moores Wharf at Millers Point. Above the wharf can be seen the Victoria Terraces and the offices of the French Consul M. Farramond. Garling appears to have painted the watercolour for James Grocott, an art dealer, whose printed label has been fixed to its bottom edge -- Curator Notes, Frederick Garling exhibition, State Library of NSW, 2003.
  Dated by comparision with DG V1A/26 which appears to be a copy or original of this view.
  Digital order no:a128239
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on printed label stuck to bottom of drawing; imprint reads "Published by J. T. Grocott, Printseller & Stationer, 476, George Street, Sydney". The view however is a watercolour and not a print.
  "J Whatman Turkey Mill" -- watermark
• Topic
  boats
  colonial art
  commerce
  horses
  ships
  warehouses
  jetties & wharves
  
• Place
  Moore's Wharf (Miller's Point, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Frederick Garling exhibition - State Library of New South Wales (5 May - 10 August, 2003)
  Equinity - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2007 - December, 2007)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3140573

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