• Title
  Johnsons [ie Johnstons] Bay Balmain, [1865-70?] / watercolour by Halsted
• Creator
  George F. Halsted, active approximately 1852–approximately 1880
• Call number
  DG V1A/17
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1865-1870
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  456536
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour - approx. 26 x 42 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Biographical information about the artist is in The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 / edited by Joan Kerr. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Titled in pencil on reverse, with 'Halsted' once in ink and once in pencil on reverse
  Undated; dated from notes at PXn 553
  A view showing part of this headland at SPF/616 is labelled in pencil 'Old Bay Ferry, Balmain' and gives names 'Hunt' and 'E.W. Caven (?)' [ie. Cameron] above the houses. Notes re names are filed at PXn 103.
  
  Notes by K.H. Perdriau dated 1978 are filed at PXn 553 identifying houses and other features in the picture. The view is from 14 Datchett St Balmain East, looking westwards toward the other side of the same headland. The three houses in the middle distance are identified from left to right as Henry Perdriau Snr., "Bleak House" (later "Claremont"), Grafton St (built by Samuel Crook c.1855); Hon. Edward Hunt MLC, "Hampton Villa", Grafton/Ewenton St (later occupied by Sir Henry Parkes; still standing, 1976); and E.W.Cameron: "Ewenton" (built early 1850s, with "florid wing of three stories" added c.1870; derelict but still standing, 1976). The bay in the right foreground is referred to as "the Little Bay", with Johnstons Bay and Glebe Island in the left background joined by the first Glebe Island Bridge.
  
  Further information is at PXn 553.
  Digital order no:a1528039
• Topic
  bays
  colonial art
  ferry wharves
  paddle steamers
  watercolours
  
• Place
  Balmain (N.S.W.)
  Bleak House (N.S.W.)
  Ewenton (Balmain, N.S.W.)
  Hampton Villa (Balmain, N.S.W.)
  Johnstons Bay (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sydney Harbour : Seldom Scene - State Library of New South Wales (5 March - 27 March, 2007)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3233591

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