• Title
  Views of Port Jackson, 1788 / possibly by William Bradley
• Creator
  William Bradley, approximately 1757-1833
• Call number
  PX*D 311
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1788
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  836299
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Scope and Content
  a. A view in Port Jackson taken from Sirius Island; the Sirius lying of [sic] the entrance of Sydney Cove, 1788 / possibly by William Bradley
  Titled as above on grey border inner frame line
  21.9 x 38.2 cm inside frame lines, on sheet 27.8 x 43.8 cm
  
  b. A view in upper part of Port Jackson; when the fish was shot, 1788 / possibly by William Bradley
  Very similar to a smaller sketch in Bradley's Journal signed by Bradley and titled as above
  21.9 x 38.2 cm inside frame lines, on sheet 27.8 x 43.8 cm
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• General note
  
  The handwriting of the title is similar to that in Bradley's Journal ; the style of the drawing is similar to the sketches in his journal (ML Safe 1/14)
  
  Provenance notes filed at Ab 195
  
  Copy Print : PX*D 311(a) ; PX*D 311(b) available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  
  Subject keywords:
  Sirius Island
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1077222
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  It has also been suggested, by G. C. Ingleton, that Governor John Hunter could be the artist
• Date note
  
  Undated; dated from time H. M. S. Sirius was in Port Jackson
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Hunter, John, 1737-1821
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  views
  
• Place
  Port Jackson (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  

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