• Title
  Statue of Capt. Cook standing in front of Capt. Thos. Watson's home at Randwick, N.S.W. ...
• Call number
  SPF/1057
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  undated [after 1874]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  421516
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - albumen photoprint - 22.8 x 18 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Statue erected in 1874 at the corner of Belmore Road & Avoca Street, Randwick. This may be the first statue erected in New South Wales to Cook. The building behind, the private residence of Captain Watson dates possibly from the 1830s and was the Star and Garter Hotel until 1860s.
  References:
  Australian Heritage Commission : Register of the National Estate database, Aug 2002
  Randwick 1859-1976 / by W.B. Lynch and F.A. Larcombe. Sydney : Oswald Ziegler Publications for the Council of the Municipality of Randwick, 1976 (p.130)
  Digital order no:a325057
  This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title continues in ink on reverse: ... The statue was carved at the expense of Capt. Watson from Pyrmont sandstone by Mr McGill / Presented by W.H. Brown Esq., 32 Cook St., Randwick, 29 Jan /31
• Name
  Watson, Thomas, 1795-1879
  
• Subject
  Cook, James, 1728-1779.
  
• Topic
  houses
  monuments & memorials
  statues
  
• Place
  Randwick (N.S.W)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9605941

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