• Title
  Captain Cook proclaiming NSW a British possession, Botany Bay
• Creator
  J. A. (John Alexander) Gilfillan, 1793-1864
• Call number
  Government Printing Office 1 - 06385, Original negative held by State Archives & Records Authority of New South Wales.
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1889
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  168976
• Physical Description
  Photographs - Dry plate. 12 x 10 in. L.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection fall under Crown Copyright - Date made plus 50 years. Please direct all copyright enquiries to State Archives & Records Authority of New South Wales
• Original held by
  Government Printing Office original negative archive is held at State Archives & Records Authority of New South Wales as NRS 21689 Images [Government Printing Office] & NRS 4481 Glass Negatives. State Library NSW holds a low resolution copy image only. Please direct all enquiries, including image orders from the original negative, to State Archives & Records Authority of New South Wales.
• General note
  
  GPO original locations or series - St205
  From NSW Govt Printer series - Old Sydney
  Information from NSW Government Printer - Engraving by H. Penkwell, from painting by J.A. Gilfillan.
  This image is based on a painting, "Captain Cook Taking Possession of New South Wales, 1770", by John Alexander Gilfillan, which he probably painted in the later half of the 1850s. He presented the painting to the Royal Society of Victoria in 1859. A coloured wood engraving (engraved by Samuel Calvert) of the painting was published in the December issue of the Illustrated Sydney News, while the Mitchell Library owns of copy of it at ML 648.
  Digital order no:d1_06385
• Subject
  Cook, James, 1728-1779.
  
  
• Topic
  bands
  engravings
  flags
  official events
  tents
  
• Place
  Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1770268

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