• Title
  View of North Head, Port Jackson, and a detachment from the 11th Foot (The Devonshire's) ca. 1852-1857, attributed to an officer of the 11th Regiment of Foot
• Call number
  SV/341
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1852-1857
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  9623518
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour and pencil - 26.5 x 37 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The 1st/11th Regiment (North Devonshire) was garrisoned in the colony from 1845 to 1857. The first division of the regiment containing headquarters and three companies, had sailed from Chatham aboard the Castle Eden in July 1845. The remainder of the regiment followed in the Ramilies in August 1845. After service in Sydney they were transferred to Hobart Town, but returned in 1846 to restore discipline to the riotous and unruly 99th Regiment. The 11th was a popular regiment returning again to garrison Sydney in response to a public petition in 1848. The 11th occupied Victoria Barracks until they sailed for England in 1857.
  
  In October 1853 the 11th Regiment were encamped at Middle Head when they began clearing the ground in early November.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file.
• Collection history
  Christie's Auction London, Sale 5506, 8 October 2014.
• Scope and Content
  A watercolour and pencil drawing depicting a view looking towards North Head in Port Jackson. In the middle ground a small figure, possibly a woman in blue dress is walking with a dog, and in the background there are huts or tents clearly visible.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Cataloguing based on inscriptions.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscription lower right: 'North Head, Port Jackson Detach 11th Foot (Devons)'.
  On verso: 'North Head, Port Jackson c 1860 showing a detachment of the 11th foot, by an officer of the 11th Foot'. [written in contemporary hand in pencil].
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Artist is unknown but attributed to an officer of the 11th Foot as stated in the inscription.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 11th
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 11th.
  Camping--New South Wales.
  
• Place
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  North Head (Port Jackson, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE13170801

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