• Title
  Family gathering at Dolls Point, Sydney, by Varney Parkes
• Creator
  Varney Parkes, 1859-1935
• Call number
  ML 1564
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  approximately 1892
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  9658685
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - visible image 76 x 107 cm, in frame 102 x 133 cm
  
• Collection history
  Sold by Davidson Auctions, Annandale, NSW, 8 April 2018, Lot 193A. Provenance, private collection, NSW.
• Scope and Content
  Oil painting probably of Dolls Point, NSW, ca. 1892. A group of people are depicted in the foreground gathered around a picnic. In far right of painting is a turreted cottage surrounded by a white fence on shore of Botany Bay.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Untitled. Title taken from Davidson auction catalogue, 8 April 2018.
• Variant title
  
  Titled by vendor: 'Grounds of the Scarborough Hotel, Dolls Point, Sydney , ca. 1892'.
  Believed by vendor to depict the grounds of the newly built Scarborough Hotel
  on the end of Russell Street, Dolls Point.
  
  Reference
  Christopher Day Gallery, 'Early Sydney & Beyond'
• General note
  
  A photograph taken in the 1920s of a residence in Russell Avenue, Dolls Point, is probably the residence depicted far right of painting.
  
  Reference
  Primrose House, Doll's Point : a history / Dr Garry Darby (Mitchell Library call no. HQ 2016/1060), p. 89.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed lower left 'Varney Parkes'
• Date note
  
  Undated. Dated by vendor based on newspaper report of artist visiting the area in 1892.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Subject
  Picnics--New South Wales--Sydney.
  
• Place
  Dolls Point (N.S.W.)
  Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20784797

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