• Title
  Circular Quay / watercolour by Frederick Garling
• Creator
  Frederick Garling, 1806-1873
• Call number
  ML 88
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  c.1854
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  423731
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour and gouache with underdrawing - 33.5 x 44.7 cm. inside mount; framed 56.2 x 71 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  In the foregound is shown the 'Pride of the Sea', an American ship, tied up at the wharf in front of James Grocott's Wholesale, Wine and Spirit warehouse, which is listed in "Waugh & Cox's directory of Sydney and its suburbs" for 1855 as being in New Pitt Street, or Circular Quay. The 'Pride of the Sea' was in the Harbour in 1854.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  'Pride of the Sea' was built by the designer of the first yacht to win the America's Cup. It's revolutionary bow and sails attracted considerable interest on her Sydney visit.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874511
• Name
  Pride of the Sea (ship)
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  bond stores
  ships
  jetties & wharves
  
• Place
  Circular Quay (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Frederick Garling exhibition - State Library of New South Wales (5 May - 10 August, 2003)
  Painted panorama 1800-1870: paintings from the Mitchell and Dixson collections of the State Library of New South Wales - Blaxland Gallery (November, 1985 - November, 1985)
  Dockside : Sydney's working harbour, 1840-1875 - State Library of New South Wales (May, 2008 - August, 2008)

View Media Files

2.

3.

4.

Show more