• Title
  Sydney Heads [showing sailing ship with American flag entering Sydney Harbour and a small screw steamer inside the Heads], ca. 1850?
• Call number
  ML 257
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, West Wall, no. 8
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1850?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  431524
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 47 x 62 cm. incl. frame
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Titled in brushpoint at lower right
  Unsigned, undated
  Further notes regarding the possible identity of the American ship, compiled by Dr Philip Lundeberg, Sept. 1989, held at Pxn 753
  Conserved and reframed 2003 (old frame at F494)
  4 paintings held in Mitchell Library are all titled in brushpoint on the canvas, in a similar hand (ML 257,377,445,1168). Better artists were less likely to title their work on the actual painting, so indications are that these 4 works were produced by a lesser-known artist working from a superior original oil by a more prominent artist, to sell to a broader popular market. See individual records for details of the works from which the imitations may have been made. Source: ML Pictures Curator, Dec. 2003
  Digital order no:a128552
• Conservation note
  
  Paintwork cracked
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  harbours
  headlands
  sailing ships
  steamboats
  
• Place
  Sydney Heads (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Pride of place - State Library of New South Wales (27 September - 29 November, 2004)
  Harbour Views - State Library of New South Wales (March, 2014 - October, 2014)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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