• Title
  View of the east side of Sydney Cove, [ca. 1803 / attributed to G. W. Evans]
• Creator
  George William Evans, 1780-1852
• Call number
  DG V1/86
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca. 1803]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  457660
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour - in frame lines 31 x 52 cm, 41.5 x 63 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Unsigned and undated
  Title from verso of work `View of the east side of Sydney Cove'
  `DG V1/86 has been compared with an almost identical view, a large watercolour formerly attributed to Lewin XV1/1803/1. There are points of similarity between the two which suggest that one may have been copied from the other'. Notes on attribution and dating of this and other paintings by Evans are at PXn 265
  Purchased from the collection of Viscount Sydney at Frognal, Kent 1915. Listed in the Dixson Library catalogue 91/518 as `Unframed drawings - Two old views of Sydney in colour, 12 in x 20 in and 7 in x 24 in'. By `Evans' is written in pencil in the margin in Sir William Dixson's hand
  Frame at F194
  Digital order no:a1528484
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  settlements
  ships
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Our Town Sydney - State Library of New South Wales (26 February - 30 August, 1982)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3237078

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