• Title
  Item 01: Farm Cove "man of war roads" Sydney as taken from Fort Denison [ca. 1859-1860] / [attributed to James Glen Wilson]
• Call number
  V/198
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  Between October 1859 - January 1860
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  845645
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - with pen and pencil - 16.2 x 53.5 cm
  1 text caption - 6.7 x 53 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  The watercolour shows in the foreground Fort Denison looking across to Farm Cove and Sydney including Sydney Harbour maritime activity.
  The watercolour includes a topographical key to ships and other features as follows:
  St James Church
  Botanic Garden and Domain
  Iris, Captain Loring
  Government House
  Herald, Captain Denham
  Fort Macquarie
  Sydney Cove
  Dawes Battery
  Water Police Watch House
  Blues Point
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title taken from accompanying topographical key
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 971138
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Further inscribed: `St James Ch.’; `Botanic Garden and Domain’; `“Iris”, Capt. Loring’; `Government Ho.’; `“Herald”, Capt. Denham’; `Fort Macquarie’; `Sydney Cove’; `Dawes Battery’; `Water Police Watch Ho.’; `Blues Point’
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  The topographical key seems to compare to other works by James Glen Wilson held in the Dixson Galleries Collection: Port Jackson and Port Jackson approaches, 1857 / James Glen Wilson (DG V1/24-26; DG XV1/34)
• Date note
  
  This image probably dates from the visit of the Herald to Sydney in October 1859 until January 1860 after the placement of the cannons on Fort Denison in late 1859
• Conservation note
  
  The watercolour and topographical key appear to have been produced on different paper
• Name
  Herald (Ship)
  Iris (ship)
  
• Subject
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.).
  Shipping--New South Wales--Sydney Harbour.
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Fortification--New South Wales--Sydney.
  
• Topic
  sailing ships
  paddle steamers
  fortifications
  artillery
  city & town views
  boats
  
• Place
  Fort Denison (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Farm Cove (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE542935

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