• Title
  Dome Room [Henrietta Villa] Point Piper / [attributed to] Frederick Garling
• Creator
  Frederick Garling, 1806-1873
• Call number
  SV/42
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1835-1850
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  66015
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 21.9 X 30.2 cm - watercolour with underdrawing on paper
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Attributed to Frederick Garling by Garling family tradition - comparisons with other Garling watercolours in the Mitchell Pictures collections proved inconclusive
  
  It is argued in Patricia McDonald & Barry Pearce ed.s, The Artist and the Patron, AGNSW, 1988 p.151 (Q759.994/70 Mitchell Library) that the scene in this drawing was a 1850s re-creation of a ca. 1830s event on the grounds that the costume is more of the 1850s period. The authors point to the similiarity in the style of the drawing and of the dress to the firmly dated 1856 drawing "Guests assembled at the wedding of Adelaide ... with Sloper Cox" SV/27 Mitchell Library Pictures Collection. The issue is unresolved. It is worth noting that Garling's employer, Collector of Customs Colonel John Gibbes, lived in Henrietta Villa in the 1830s and 1840s.
  Digital order no:a128230
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed in pencil on reverse "Dome Room Point Piper" to which is added in blue pencil "- Sydney - occassion of one of the many festivities give by Capt. Piper - a friend of Frdk Garling - Judge Advocate of Colony of NSW and Grandfather of Wllm Garling"
  
  At lower right on reverse, also in pencil and probably relating to framing instructions is "Mr W. Garling"
  On an old backing board kept with the watercolour is written in a later hand "Watercolour Drawing by F Garling, junior - Guests in the Dome Room of Captain John Piper's mansion; at Point Piper. F.G. was in his early 20's when this was painted circa 1830, after Piper had moved to Bathurst."
• Topic
  interiors
  ballrooms
  chandeliers
  colonial art
  parties
  statues
  
• Place
  Henrietta Villa (Point Piper, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Private Lives: Families of N.S.W.
  Frederick Garling exhibition

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