• Title
  Sydney Cove / 1842 / O.W. Brierly
• Creator
  Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.) Brierly, 1817-1894
• Call number
  ML 65
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1842
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  440328
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - in rectangular frame painted gold in colour with glass front - 21 x 140 cm. (sight) ; 47 x 170 cm. (frame)
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Text in pencil at lower right is paritally obscured by mount.
  Some of the features that are identified on the image have been transferred to the corresponding place on the mount in pencil.
  On the reverse of the frame is a handwritten non-contemporaneous label that provides geographical context and biographical information on Brierly, ""Taken from the east side of the Cove near Bennelong Point giving a view of eastern side from Macquarie / to Dawes Point. Original watercolour by Sir O.W. Brierly, the distinguished marine artist, who came to Australia / with Benjamin Boyd on the latter's yacht The Wanderer. He was for a time Police Magistrate at Twofold Bay / After his return to England he was appointed artist to Prince Alfred on the occasion of the latter's first visit to ...""
  Digital order no:a928514
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated ""O.W. Brierly 1842"" at lower left.
  Titled from pencil inscription on image.
  Features are identified in pencil at lower edge of image, ""Obelisk Mc Quarie Place / Simeon Lords House / Prosper de ... / The old Barracks Geo. St. / Dr Lancasters Church Mill & St Phillips Church / Command or Government House / The old steam dredger / The Rocks / Campbells House Campbells Wharf / William Walkers House / Dawes Point / Entrance to Darling Harbour""
  On plaque attached to centre of frame, ""Sydney in 1842. / Sir O.W. Brierly / Purchased by the Trustees / For the National Art Gallery of N.S.W""
• Subject
  St. Philip's Church (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
  
• Topic
  boats
  buildings, structures & establishments
  churches
  harbours
  houses
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Dawes Point (N.S.W.)
  Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Macquarie Place Obelisk (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  

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