• Title
  Vaucluse, 1851 / painted by G. E. Peacock
• Creator
  G. E. (George Edwards) Peacock, b. 1806
• Call number
  ML 236
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 75
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1851
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  421046
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 25.2 x 36.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  This view, looking down from New South Head Road, depicts Vaucluse House with a fete spread over its lawns. The square barracks, built in the late 1820s to house its convict servants, are at the centre of the painting. The artist has framed this picture with a mess of shrubs and vegetation.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Peacock published a lithograph of this work printed by John Allan (PXC 284 f.20)
  Reference: George Edwards Peacock exhibition catalogue. State Library of New South Wales, 2002
  Oil painting and frame conserved with the generous support of the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001-2002.
  Provenance of item known from a list of material that was deposited with the National Art Gallery (Art Gallery of N.S.W.), prior to the Mitchell Library's opening in 1910.
  Digital order no:a128037
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated lower right "G. Peacock, 1851"
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  barracks
  bays
  colonial art
  harbours
  landscapes (views)
  ships
  
• Place
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Vaucluse Bay (N.S.W.)
  Vaucluse House (Vaucluse, N.S.W.)
  Vaucluse (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  George Edwards Peacock - State Library of New South Wales (13 May - 1 August, 2002)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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