[Dawes Point from Fort Macquarie] / by Charles Drinkwater, 1867

ML 1506

fonds

1867

Graphic Materials, Paintings

9580629

1 painting - oil on canvas - 36.5 x 49.5 cm.

Charles Drinkwater (1818-1902) was known as a photographer who worked in Sydney and around New South Wales. In 1867 he was listed as working in Kempsey, NSW. He moved to Sydney the following year and established C. Drinkwater’s Chromo Gallery at 621 George Street. He then travelled around taking photographs in country towns including Wallabadah, Tamworth, and Newcastle. He exhibited photographs at the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, and the 1887 Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition.

Fort Macquarie was a castellated battlement fort built between 1817-1821 at Bennelong Point, Sydney, under the direction of architect Francis Greenway. It was demolished in 1901 to make way for new electric tramway sheds named Fort Macquarie Tram Depot. This historical site is where the Sydney Opera House now stands.
Reference: Library correspondence file

From Sydney collection of John Houstone

Oil painting on canvas, 1867, depicting a view from Fort Macquarie across Sydney Cove to Dawes Point and the Rocks area, with the western reach of Sydney harbour in the distance beyond. Fort Macquarie, on the end of Bennelong Point, was built by Francis Greenway under the direction of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and is now the site of the Sydney Opera House. The current site of the Sydney Harbour Bridge can also be seen in distance on right. This painting records the harbour foreshore as it was in 1867, and provides a contrast to the shoreline today.

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Signed and dated lower right “C. Drinkwater, Sydney 1867”. Further inscription in pencil on reverse “Fort Macquarie 1867”.