• Title
  [View of Miller's Point and Darling Harbour, ca. 1870 / artist unknown]
• Call number
  DG 392
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, West Wall, no. 18
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1870
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  456908
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 46.5 x 63 cm., in frame 53.5 x 70.5 cm.
  
• Collection history
  The painting, acquired from Mrs Stobo in 1965, formerly belonged to her father-in-law who was a sea captain trading in Australian waters.
• Scope and Content
  View from location now called Peacock Point, Balmain. Shows Flagstaff Hill and the Observatory on the left in the middle distance, Fort Street School (the old Military Hospital) on the ridge and the buildings of the Australian Gas Light Company works, operational by 1843, at the water's edge to the right.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 825789
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned.
• Topic
  colonial art
  oil paintings
  paddle steamers
  sailing boats
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Darling Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Millers Point (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sydney Harbour : Seldom Scene - State Library of New South Wales (5 March - 27 March, 2007)
  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)
  The Artist and the patron - Art Gallery of New South Wales (February, 1988 - May, 1988)
  Observing Sydney - views of and from Observatory Hill - S.H. Ervin Gallery (May, 1993 - June, 1993)
  Dockside : Sydney's working harbour, 1840-1875 - State Library of New South Wales (May, 2008 - August, 2008)
  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
  IE1150897

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