• Title
  View from the verandah at Hobartville, seat of Mrs. W. Cox / Frederick Garling
• Creator
  Frederick Garling, 1806-1873
• Call number
  V/293
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  approximately 1860
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1353332
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 24.5 x 34.5 cm - watercolour on paper
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The Hobartville estate was purchased by the Cox family in 1816 and later became the home of William Cox Jnr (1789-1850), the eldest son of military officer, road maker and builder William Cox (1764-1837), best known for his supervision of the building of the road across the Blue Mountains in 1814, and his first wife Rebecca Upjohn. William Jnr married Elizabeth Piper in London and the couple returned to Australia in 1814. Settling at Richmond in 1816, Hobartville was built in the Georgian style and completed by 1828. Following the death of William Cox Jnr in 1850, the property was leased by his third son Sloper Cox (1823-1877) from his older brother, William III.
  
  The artist of this painting, Frederick Garling Jnr (1806-1873) was associated with the Cox family through the marriage of his second daughter, Adelaide Sophia (1831-1901) to Sloper Cox in 1856.
  
  Source:
  Library file.
• Collection history
  The Hon. Edward Cox, MLC. of Mulgoa, NSW, to Edward King Cox (1829-1883), M.L.C. Thence by descent to Miss Valerie M. Cox, Sydney. Thence by descent.
• Scope and Content
  This is a landscape view, executed in watercolour on paper, and measuring 24.5 x 34.5cm. This figure-in-landscape watercolour picture represents the view from the verandah at Hobartville, on the outskirts of Richmond, N.S.W., with views to the Blue Mountains. The painting shows a man in a dark suit and top hat with two women in fashionably flounced gowns, standing at the edge of a wide expanse of sandstone flagging, under a high timber-lined verandah supported by four iron or wooden striated Doric columns with creeping vines, with a sweeping outlook over semi-cultivated gardens, cleared and fenced plains, looking towards a low range of hills.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Accompanying wooden panel.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Accompanied by wooden panels inscribed:
  'View from the verandah at "Hobartville", seat of Mrs W. Cox, (Hobartville was built about the year 1820)'.
  'Wombat Park, Daylesford'.
  'By Garling?'
  
  On the reverse of the watercolour is a label inscribed:
  'From Mrs F.M. Brooke, Wombat Park, Daylesford, Victoria, per Miss Valarie Cox 64 Old South Head Road, Dover Heights via Vaucluse, Sydney'.
• Date note
  
  The inclusion of the phrase ‘seat of Mrs W. Cox’ in the surviving caption label for this work, would suggest it post-dates William Cox Jnr’s death in 1850.
• Name
  Cox family
  
• Subject
  Architecture, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Landscape drawing, Australian--19th century.
  Pioneers--New South Wales--Richmond.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  gardens
  porches
  landscapes (views)
  Colonial architecture
  verandas
  mansions
  columns
  historic buildings
  
• Place
  Hobartville (Richmond, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20196127

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