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Print
414423
  • Title
    Billy Blue's Cottage and the Harbour
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ML 981.1/97P p.177
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1838
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    414423
  • Physical Description
    Prints - lithograph
  • General note

    Published in book: `Picture of Sydney & Strangers Guide', 1838 / James Maclehose.
    `Cottage stands on the south side of Sydney Cove...[and] was built by Governor Macquarie for Billy Blue, at the time that eccentric character filled the situation of Water Bailiff. After Billy Blue had resided in this cottage for some years, Macquarie gave him a grant of a portion of land on the North Shore' -- p.176
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Titled below image
    `W. Moffitt Sculp.' -- at lower right
  • Name
  • Topic
  • Place
  • Exhibited in

    Sydney Eccentrics: A Celebration of Individuals in Society - State Library of New South Wales (22 April - 29 August, 1999)
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