• Title
  Dawes Point, showing Sydney Harbour Bridge in the course of construction, ca.1927 / oil painting by Herbert R. Gallop
• Creator
  Herbert Gallop, 1890-1958
• Call number
  ML 437
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 92
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1927
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  456675
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil (canvas on ply) - approx. 28.2 x 36.2 cm. inside frame
  
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years
  Copyright holder:: Laurie F Gallop
  Approval for reproduction required:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Signed "H.R. Gallop" at lower right
  Titled on label on reverse, partially obscuring earlier title, "The Bridge from McMahons [Point ...?]"
  Undated. Basis for dating in Mitchell Library Pictures card catalogue not stated; possibly by progress of bridge construction.
  In 1930 Gallop exhibited "The Bridge from North Sydney" in the Society of Artists annual exhibition (no. 216). Gallop valued this painting at 100 guineas.
  Digital order no:a1528093
• Topic
  bridge construction
  bridges
  harbours
  oil paintings
  vessels (watercraft)
  jetties & wharves
  
• Place
  Dawes Point (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour Bridge (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sydney Harbour : Seldom Scene - State Library of New South Wales (5 March - 27 March, 2007)
  Harbour Views - State Library of New South Wales (March, 2014 - October, 2014)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1148705

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