• Title
  [View from Fairlight towards South Head, Sydney, New South Wales] / S.T.G [Samuel Thomas Gill]
• Creator
  Samuel Thomas Gill, 1818-1880
• Call number
  SV/347
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  probably between 1857 and 1869
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  9645746
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 27.5 x 41.5 cm - watercolour, pencil and opaque white body colour on paper
  
• Scope and Content
  View from Fairlight looking towards Manly with South Head in the background. A flagpole and the stone camera obscura tower built by Henry Gilbert Smith at Fairlight in ca. 1857 are depicted in the foreground.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Variant title
  
  Previously titled by vendor 'Proposed Signal Station and Semaphore pole at Dobroyd Point Sydney Harbour c. 1860'.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed lower left 'S.T.G.'.
• Date note
  
  Undated. Dated from construction of camera obscura at Fairlight, ca. 1857.
• Subject
  Camera obscuras--New South Wales--Sydney--Pictorial works.
  Flagpoles.
  
• Place
  Fairlight (N.S.W.)
  Manly (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19510545

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