• Title
  Sydney N.S.W. from Garden Island. Government House to the left, 1846 / painted by G. E. Peacock
• Creator
  G. E. (George Edwards) Peacock, b. 1806
• Call number
  DL 7
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 93
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1846
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  421109
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 30.5 x 42.9 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  An unusual view looking back from Garden Island into Sydney, set against a rich sunset.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This highly toned painting was one of the kinds of works which the `Sydney Morning Herald' complained in 1847 "were praiseworthy for their correctness and attention to details [but] Mr Peacock must look at nature through warm coloured spectacles..." (26 July 1847 p.2)
  Reference: George Edwards Peacock exhibition catalogue / State Library of New South Wales, 2002.
  Frame located at 354
  Digital order no:a128031
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled, signed & dated "G.E. Peacock" on reverse
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  colonial art
  fortifications
  harbours
  landscapes (views)
  sunsets
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney (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 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3191592

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