• Title
  Blackwood's panorama of Sydney & Harbour from Government House, [1858]
• Creator
  W. (William) Blackwood, 1824-1897
• Call number
  PXA 426
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [1858]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  441831
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : SPF/Sydney, 1858
  Copy print : SPF/Sydney-Public Buildings-Government House, 1858
  
• Physical Description
  12 photoprints (comprising 1 panorama in 11 sections and 1 photoprint) in leather and embossed bound album - albumen - images 19 x 29.2 cm., in album 25.3 x 31 cm. Length of panorama, 324.5 cm., mounted on folding board
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Portrait painter Olaf William Blackwood (1824-1897), of Swedish-Scots descent, set himself up as a photographer in Sydney in 1858.
  Apart from being the first photographer in Australia to introduce the carte-de-visite (the commonest form of portrait photograph of the 19th century) Blackwood is known for producing three large albums of Sydney view photographs (including Blackwood's Panorama) in 1858 and 1859. -- Curator of Photographs, June 2004
  For further biographical information see: The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 / edited by Joan Kerr. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Scope and Content
  Blackwood's Panorama / of / Sydney Harbour / from / Government House -- Cover title
  Sections 1-11. Panorama
  Section 1 & 2. Entrance to Government House, Macquarie Street, city view including Customs House, Sydney Cove
  Section 3 & 4. City view, Sydney Cove, The Rocks, Campbell's Wharf & Dawes Point
  Section 5 & 6. Sydney Harbour, Fort Macquarie, views to the North Shore
  Section 7 & 8. Sydney Harbour view, sailing ships, Fort Denison, Garden Island, Lady Macquarie's Chair
  Section 9 & 10. Farm Cove, views to Potts Point and Darlinghurst
  Section 11. The Government Domain, Government House Stables.
  12. Government House
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Contents devised by cataloguer, July 2004
  Blackwood's Panorama of Sydney is described in the Sydney Morning Herald, 4 Aug 1858 ""... we invite our readers to inspect a rare and successful effort of photographic art ... showing in one long panorama a view, or rather series of views, of this metropolis, which we are constrained to declare eminently superior to anything of the kind we have yet seen ...""
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824199
• Topic
  fortifications
  harbours
  official residences
  panoramic views
  ships
  city & town views
  jetties & wharves
  
• Place
  Circular Quay (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Farm Cove (N.S.W.)
  Fort Macquarie (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
  Rocks, The (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)--Photographs.
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Photographs.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sydney vistas : panoramic views 1788-1995 - Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
  Eye 4 photography - State Library of New South Wales (January, 2005 - May, 2005)

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