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[Sydney from the western side of the Cove, ca 1803 / attributed to G.W. Evans]

Full title: [Sydney from the western side of the Cove, ca 1803 / attributed to G.W. Evans]

Author/creator: Evans, George William, 1780-1852.

Date: [ca 1803].

Call Numbers: XV1/1803/1

Record Identifier: 1Drmwx39

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Formats: Pictures, Watercolours

Contents: Drawings - 40.5 x 76.5 cm. - 1 watercolour on wove paper

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Notes: The work is not signed nor dated Attributed to G.W. Evans and formerly attributed to J.W. Lewin `XV1/1803/1 has been compared with an almost identical view, a watercolour DG V1/86. There are points of similarity between the two which suggest that one may have been copied from the other'. Notes on attribution and dating of this and other paintings by Evans are at PXn 265. Dated with reference to a sequence of four views of Government House determined by the changes to the buildings and the garden. For further information see McCormick ... [et a.] cited above Digital order no:a1528462

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    [Sydney from the western side of the Cove, ca 1803 / attributed to G.W. Evans]

    Call numbers

    XV1/1803/1

    Record identifier

    1Drmwx39

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    [Sydney from the western side of the Cove, ca 1803 / attributed to G.W. Evans]

    Full title

    [Sydney from the western side of the Cove, ca 1803 / attributed to G.W. Evans]

    Author / Creator

    Evans, George William, 1780-1852

    Date

    [ca 1803]

    Call Numbers

    XV1/1803/1

    Record Identifier

    1Drmwx39

    Formats

    Pictures and Watercolours

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    Drawings - 40.5 x 76.5 cm. - 1 watercolour on wove paper

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Fonds

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    Copying Conditions

    Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955

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    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Government House (Bridge St., Sydney, N.S.W.) Sydney Cove (N.S.W.) Aboriginal peoples (Australians) harbours sailing ships settlements city & town views Art, Colonial--Australia

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    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    This watercolour shows for the first time the veranda of Government House extended across the front of the drawing room with the garden being cleared in preparation for planting
    -- Reference: First views of Australia 1788-1825 : a history of early Sydney / Tim McCormick ... [et al.] ; foreword by Bernard Smith. Chippendale, N.S.W. : David Ell...

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    [Sydney from the western side of the Cove, ca 1803 / attributed to G.W. Evans]

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Creator

    — NOTES

    General note

    ...

    Signature / Inscriptions

    `Sydney in 1808' -- in pencil on reverse in later hand

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Presented by F .H. Wilson, 1899 (transferred from AGNSW)

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    A living collection

    Identifiers

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    Call Numbers

    XV1/1803/1

    Record Identifier

    1Drmwx39

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    457903

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