• Title
  Cockatoo Island, ca. 1864 / unknown artist
• Call number
  V/287
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1864
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1059133
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - lead and brown pencil, on paper, torn edges, in a cream card mount and gilt/wood modern frame - drawing 21.5 x 34 cm, frame 42.7 x 54 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  By 1858-1859, the engine house and six bays of the workshops at Cockatoo Island had been completed. By 1861 an extension to the workshops was under construction and it was completed by 1864. Six more bays and a central entrance had been added. Mann had referenced the Portsmouth Dockyard buildings in his plans. A cupola over the central entrance was also comparable with the Royal Dockyards. A more elaborate scheme had been planned by Mann but a prisoner had destroyed the ornamental stonework for the pediment in December 1861
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  The workshops are the focal point in a symmetrical view of the island. To the left is the dock with a ship and the buildings on the top of the southern end of the island. To the right is Biloela House on the highest point, other buildings on the waterfront and a flagstaff on the right hand point of the island
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Variant title
  
  Titled by Jane Morley, art dealer
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a9832001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed in pencil on the lower edge by two hands
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Water level drawing of the eastern side of Cockatoo Island, probably from either Robinson's Point, Birchgrove or Mann's Point, Greenwich
  
  References:
  Cockatoo Island from [Long Nose Point, ca. 1870's] (SPF / 816). http://www.acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?itemID=420882 (accessed October 28, 2013)
  [Cockatoo Island], undated [pre-1864] (SPF / 817). http://www.acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?itemID=420883 (accessed October 28, 2013)
  
  Attributed to Gother Kerr Mann by Jane Morley, art dealer, September 2013
  
  Comparison with Gother Kerr Mann's architectural drawings and plans shows two stylistic similarities with this drawing of Cockatoo Island. Mann shades the roofs distinctively with shading across the top and round the edges. He also draws a wide shade line under the eaves of buildings. His architectural drawings and this drawing have both of those features. The roof shading is especially distinctive
• Date note
  
  Dated by Jane Morley, art dealer
• Subject
  Convict labor--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Navy-yards and naval stations--Australia.
  
• Topic
  harbours
  islands
  shipyards
  Colonial architecture
  naval bases
  drawings
  landscape architecture drawings
  
• Place
  Cockatoo Island (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3301117

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