• Title
  East Boyd, N.S.W. / by O. W. Brierly
• Call number
  86/7 Dixson Library (Printed Books Collection)
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1847
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  441842
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 10 x 16.8 cm. - 1 pencil & wash drawing
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Watercolour tipped into: The last cruise of "The Wanderer" / by John Webster. Sydney : F. Cunninghame, [1858 or 1863?], Dixson Library 86/7 between pp. iii and 1.
  When this watercolour was painted Oswald Brierly was the manager of Ben Boyd's whaling station at East Boyd, Twofold Bay. It appears to be the basis of John Carmichael's etching "East Boyd, N.S.W.", which was published in W.H. Wells', "A Geographical Dictionary, or Gazetteer of the Australian colonies...", Sydney, 1848, opp. p.69.
  Titled by reference to the above mentioned etching.
  Dated by reference to Brierly's watercolour "East Boyd 1847", ML 1348
  Digital order no:a128929
• Topic
  sailing ships
  whalers (ships)
  whaling stations
  
• Place
  East Boyd (N.S.W.)
  Twofold Bay (N.S.W.)
  
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