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Title
Hobson's Bay, 1853 / Edmund Thomas
Creator
Edmund Thomas, 1827-1867
Call number
V2A/Hob B/1
Level of description
fonds
Date

1853
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
863040
Physical Description
1 drawing - pencil and watercolour - 36.8 cm x 52.4 cm
Description source

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
General note

Keyword subjects:
Prison hulks
Hobsons Bay (Melbourne Vic.)
Signatures / Inscriptions

Unsigned.
Attributions / conjectures

Attributed to Thomas after comparison with other drawings by him at Mitchell Library ref. PX*D 2 and with the item cited below.

The drawing is possibly the original for the lithograph. Notes across the lower edge of the sketch identify two prison hulks and indicate the position of the Yarra mouth.
Date note

Undated. Untitled. Date and title are from the very similar lithograph 'Hobson's Bay 1853', in his Victorian views. Melbourne, published by F. Varley, [1854]. pl. 3 (ML ref F 982/T).
Subject
Art, Colonial--Australia.
Topic
prisons

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