• Title
  Morning at the `Heads' of Port Jackson or the Pilot's Look-out, 1850 / painted by G. E. Peacock
• Creator
  G. E. (George Edwards) Peacock, b. 1806
• Call number
  DG 204
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 78
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1850
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  421095
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on board - 25.5 x 35.2 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Peacock's vision of a sunrise over South Head watched by two figures contemplating the Pacific is an unusually romantic depiction of this well-known spot and maybe hints at the artist's longing for England.
  In the early 1850s Peacock began to sign the front of his canvas - perhaps a sign of his growing self-confidence as an artist and emancipist.
  Reference: George Edwards Peacock exhitition catalogue / State Library of New South Wales, 2002
  Oil painting conserved and framed with the generous support of the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001-2002
  Digital order no:a128050
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed & dated "G. E. Peacock 1850" at lower right. Titled on label on reverse
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  harbours
  headlands
  ships
  sunrises
  
• Place
  Port Jackson (N.S.W.)
  South Head (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  George Edwards Peacock - State Library of New South Wales (13 May - 1 August, 2002)
  Dixson 60 - State Library of New South Wales (March, 2013)
  A passion for collecting: Sir William Dixson - State Library of New South Wales (April, 2013 - August, 2013)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3210625

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