• Title
  The Australian Steam Packet Sea Horse on her trial cruise / O.W. Brierly del. Fairland lith, 45 St John's Square, [184-?]
• Creator
  Thomas Fairland, 1804-1852
• Call number
  V*/Ships/Sea H/2
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [London] : Fairland, [184-?]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  440130
• Physical Description
  1 print - 34.5 x 46.4 cm. (sight) - lithograph
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Published before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The library also holds a colour lithograph print of this image that is a proof before letters were added, in the Dixson Galleries collection (DG V*/Ships/32).
  In the lithograph the Sea Horse is depicted flying a white flag with two bees. The Sea Horse (or Seahorse) was owned by Benjamin Boyd. According to the book, Benjamin Boyd in Australia (1842-1849)... by H. P. Wellings, Benjamin Boyd had a flag with a white ground and two honey-bees depicted in blue. The two honey-bees represented the initial letters of his name and suggested the industry of the honey-bee. The flag was used to distinguish ownership of a vessel.
  
  References:
  Benjamin Boyd in Australia (1842-1849) : shipping magnate, merchant, banker, pastoralist and station owner, member of the Legislative Council, town planner, whaler / by H. P. Wellings. Wellings, H. P. (Henry Percival) : 8th ed.. : 195-?, p. 39
  Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/ (accessed 3 January, 2018)
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled at centre on mount beneath image.
  Artist and publication details are printed beneath image, "O.W. Brierly del. Fairland lith, 45 St John's Square"
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Brierly, Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.), 1817-1894
  
• Name
  Sea Horse (ship)
  
• Topic
  steamboats
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8998754

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