• Title
  Item 07: Launching of H.M.A.S. Brisbane, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, 30th September 1915 / Sydney Ure Smith
• Call number
  DL Pd 419
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  October 1915
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  902205
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - etching - on sheet 20 x 28 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Published before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• General note
  
  Original Etchings Set 3
  
  Note on card: 'No 1., (2nd. State), Limited to 50.'
  
  Slightly foxed and soiled, with corners punctured.
  
  Sir William Dixson's small red stamp is placed below left corner of plate mark.
  
  Small boat in foreground has been removed from plate.
  
  A small reproduction illustrates a list of Smith's etchings entitled 'The Launching of H.M.A.S. Brisbane.'
  
  The pencil drawing on which this etching is based is located at DL Pe 199.
  Digital order no:a6986001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed on plate 'S. Ure S' and below it in pencil 'Sydney Ure Smith, Oct 1915.'
• Date note
  
  Date from signature.
• Name
  Brisbane (cruiser : 1916-1935)
  
• Subject
  Art, Australian--20th century.
  
• Topic
  dry docks
  naval ships
  views
  islands
  
• Place
  Cockatoo Island (N.S.W.)
  Cockatoo Island Dockyard (N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3325594

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