• Title
  Sydney, from Mrs Darling's Point. [A view, including Rushcutters Bay and a sailing ship], 1842 / John Skinner Prout
• Creator
  John Skinner Prout, 1805-1876
• Call number
  DL Pe 143
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  Sydney : J. S. Prout and Co. Australian Lithographic Establishment, 1842
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  901361
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - 18.6 x 27.2 cm, on sheet about 27.7 x 37.9 cm - lithograph on cream-tinted ground
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• General note
  
  Imprint and date from set of Prout's 'Sydney Illustrated'.
  
  Slightly foxed; sheet foxed and soiled with tears at edges.
  
  Publisher J. S. Prout and Co. Australian Lithographic Establishment was located in O'Connell Street, Sydney in 1842.
  
  Keyword subjects:
  Derby Lodge (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed on stone 'J. S. Prout'
  
  The following information is written in pencil on the sides of, and beneath, the view:
  
  (a) 'This is the original plate, Same as in Dawsons Copy';
  
  (b) 'Signature different in Plate Potters Copy' (compared with DL Pe 145);
  
  (c) 'This is not so strong as one in the book' (compared with DL Pe 144);
  
  (d) 'View taken from the gate of "Derby Lodge", the residence of M. W. Lewis Esq Coln Architect, one of the piers of this gate is represented on the right of the picture';
  
  (e) A sketch of a hand pointing to the right of the picture is followed by: 'Now? Mount Adelaide residence of Thoms. Mort Esq., demolished and now the mansion of S. Hordern'.
  
  All these notes appear to be in the hand of R. T. Carter.
• Name
  Carter, Robert Thomas
  Lewis, Mortimer William, 1796-1879
  Hordern, Sir Samuel, 1876-1956
  
• Subject
  Mort, Thomas Sutcliffe, 1816-1878.
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  views
  sailing ships
  cattle
  
• Place
  Darling Point (N.S.W.)
  Rushcutters Bay (N.S.W.)
  Retford Hall (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
  Greenoaks (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
  Mount Adelaide (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8791794

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