• Title
  Double Bay Sydney, A.D. 1842, watercolour / by [attributed] John Thompson, Deputy Surveyor General
• Creator
  John Thompson, 1800-1861
• Call number
  SSV/154
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca 1842
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  9594118
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour on paper - 20 x 30 cm.
  
• Collection history
  Day Fine Art from Sydney private collection.
• Scope and Content
  A watercolour on paper of Double Bay (Blackburn Cove) from Point Piper looking towards Darling Point. In the middle ground a small figure is fishing, and there are a few cattle. Towards the right on Point Piper a small house or structure is visible.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Verso of watercolour.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Work is unsigned.
  On verso: "Double Bay Sydney A.D. 1842 by John Thompson Deputy Surveyor General".
  "Miss Thompson .... paid sold ... 2 water colors".
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  The watercolour has been attributed to John Thompson (1800-1860) who arrived in Sydney in 1827 and worked as a principal draftsman in the colony, eventually becoming deputy Surveyor General from 1854 until his retirement in 1860.
  
  Attribution is based on similar drawings in an album by John Thompson (held at DL PXX 31) that are stylistically similar in the delineation of the foliage in the trees and the application of the wash.
  
  Source: Library file.
• Date note
  
  Work is undated.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Bays--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
  
• Topic
  fishing (pastime)
  landscapes (artwork)
  
• Place
  Double Bay (N.S.W.)
  Point Piper (N.S.W.)
  Darling Point (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20034782

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