Sydney from Milson's Point, 1855? / after Frederic Charles Terry

DL 46

fonds

1855?

Graphic Materials, Paintings

901447

Copy print : DL 46
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

1 painting - diameter 36.6 cm, on base diameter 65.3 cm - oil on canvas, inset in papier mache table top

The painting forms the centre piece of a black, japanned, papier mache top of folding tea table. The roundel is bordered by in-laid tessellated mother-of-pearl and encircled by separated leaf design, alternatively in mother-of-pearl and gold transfer. The top has serpentine edging formed from Gothic ogee arches and gothic decoration in gold transfer at points

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
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Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Title in brush point at lower centre

This table top with two others (see under Terry, Frederick Charles, after) belongs to a genre in vogue between the 1840's and the 1870's. It was probably manufactured in England and the oil painting added in Australia, either on to a blank space or onto an earlier painting, now obliterated.

Transferred from 259 P

Unsigned

The painting is probably a copy of F.C. Terry's lithograph 'Sydney from Milson's Point', No. 18 in his 'Landscape Scenery' [Australian Keepsake 1855], Sydney, Sands & Kenny, 1855, but is unlikely to be Terry's work. Dated from publication date