• Title
  View of Sydney Cove / painted by Thomas Watling
• Creator
  Thomas Watling, b. 1762
• Call number
  V1/1794+/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1794-1796?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  433069
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour on paper - 41 x 61 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Untitled
  Unsigned
  Originally attributed to J.W. Lewin and dated about 1800, but more probably by Thomas Watling, 1794-1796, according to Dr Bernard Smith's research in 1954. The figures are very close to figures in a Watling drawing in British Museum - Zoological Library - Watling drawing. Dr Smith said then that all the Watlings he had seen had been monotones but that it was quite possible that the touches of colour may have been added later by the artist himself or by another person. An engraving of this view appears in David Collins' "Account of the English Colony in New South Wales," published in 1798. Collins left Sydney in September 1796 and the view was probably drawn before that date. Government House is shown without a verandah in Watling's "Sydney in 1794" (DG 60); here it has a verandah. If "Sydney in 1794" is correctly dated, this view must have been drawn between 1794 and September 1796
  Digital order no:a928723
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  bays
  settlements
  trees
  unsealed roads
  
• Place
  Government House (Bridge St., Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Matthew Flinders : The Ultimate Voyage - State Library of New South Wales

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