Circular Quay

Date: 1880 - 1890

By: Schell, Frederic B, -1905; Hellawell, J , active 1880s; Ayre, E (Mrs), active 1976

Reference: B-037-011

Description: View across water, looking back towards Circular Quay, with shipping and the buildings above and around Circular Quay in the background A full sheet with a decorative border, apparently intended for framing. Possibly a duplicate copy from the Picturesque atlas of Australasia Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 180 x 280 mm on sheet 345 x 445 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs E Ayre 19 Apuka St., Brooklyn, 11 Oct 1976

Date: Before 1894

By: Leitch, W A, active 1894; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-260

Description: Album of scenic views of Tasmania, Sydney and wider New South Wales, and of New Zealand, both North and South Islands. Views of lighthouses include Derwent Lighthouse (Tasmania), Macquarie Lighthouse (South Head, Sydney), and Farewell Spit Lighthouse (Tasman Region, New Zealand). The New Zealand photographs are nearly all taken by Josiah Martin, and include one that is a collage of scenes he photographed, and one of Maori weapons, with captions to say they were deposited [in Auckland Museum] by Captain Gilbert Mair. A photograph attached to the inside of the back cover is of the Farewell Spit Lighthouse, and was taken by the Tyree Brothers firm Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - W.A. Leitch. 1894 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs' in gold lettering, with `Leitch' lettered in gold on spine; 21.5 x 28.5 cm Provenance: Purchase

Date: 1916

By: Smith, Sydney Ure, 1887-1949

Reference: A-073-017

Description: Looking along a wharf with a small steamer moored towards other wharves and the buildings of Potts Point, Sydney No. 2 of an edition of 25 copies Inscriptions: Signed on etching: S Ure, S.; in pencil in margin: Sydney Ure Smith Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 214 x 77 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: [August to October 1947, June 1958 and June 1959

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-199

Description: Album in two sequences. The first 12 pages are contacts from 35mm film relating to a John Tenison Salmon's Carnegie Travelling Fellowship in 1958-1959; the second sequence (pages 13-41) contains prints relating to his trip to Australia to attend the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Congress held in 1947. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1802

By: Blake, William Standen, active 1802; Watling, Thomas, 1762-; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-053-006

Description: A view of Sydney Cove (now Circular Quay) with houses and businesses surrounding the area close to the water, Government House in the middle distance, a windmill on the skyline and the rising sun in the distance beyond the north shore and the entrance to the harbour. In the foreground, an Aboriginal man is sheltering with a parasol two European women out for a stroll. Beneath the image is a coat of arms, bearing the words Vigilantia robur voluntas, possibly Hunter's coat of arms It is possible that W. S. Blake may have commissioned this print, rather than being the artist or engraver. According to McCulloch's Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, this work was engraved by Blake from a painting done on the spot by an as yet unkown artist. There is no W. S. Blake listed as an engraver in Benezit's Dictionnaire des peintres ...(Paris, Grund, 1976). He is not listed in Joan Kerr's Dictionary of Australian artists, but is mentioned in her preliminary work of the same title ... Working paper I. A-H (Sydney, Power Institute, 1984), with the names William Standen. Kerr suggests here that the print may be after an oil tentatively attributed to artist Thomas Watling. The 1998 Australian Art Sales Digest lists a sale of a hand-coloured copy of this print and gives Blake the first names William Standen. The print sold for A$14,500, August, 1993, Christie's Sydney. Other Titles - Blake's view Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 239 x 420 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8816

Description: Transparency slides of Australia selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This sheet shows views of Sydney. They include one taken from the top of the MLC Building; the outer harbour Heads from the ferry; The Gap; Manly Beach; Circular Quay; the Custom House; Sydney Harbour Bridge; Captain Cook Statue, the War Memorial and the Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park; a distant view of St Mary's Basilica; a view of streets from the Town Hall showing the Town Hall Lounge and Waltons-Sears building; the Sydney Botanical Gardens; Wynyard Park; the old New South Wales Parliament House; and Bondi Beach. These are followed by two images relating to the Camden Estate Rotolactor showing a group of visitors to the building and cows in a yard waiting to go into the "Rotolactor" rotary milking shed. It was the 2nd facility of its kind in the world, enabling larger-scale mechanisation of commercial dairy farming, opened in 1952, ceasing operation in 1972. The slides are not filed in his original numerical sequence, and are selected by subject relating to particular talks. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of Australian images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1911 - 1914

From: Smith, Sydney Ure, 1887-1949 :Original drawings. [Sydney]

Reference: E-025-q-006

Description: View across water, with wharves and ferry terminals left and right, bollards in the water nearby, two steamers approaching the Quay Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon on mottled paper, 126 x 203 mm glued to page 318 x 253 mm

Date: 1886

From: A H K [artist's initials] fl 1880s :[Sketchbook. ca 1886]

Reference: E-419-020

Description: Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 176 x 250 mm

Date: 1945

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-11947-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 1964

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: B-131-06-008

Description: The cover of the magazine of the A.M.P., designed by Eileen Mayo. It shows a row of four Sydney warehouses that had recently been demolished in preparation for the erection of a tower building for the British Tobacco Co. (Australia) Ltd, along the east side of Circular Quay Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 267 x 408 mm Provenance: Donation: Eileen Mayo, Christchurch, 1994

Date: 1964

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: B-131-06-009

Description: The drawing for the cover of the magazine of the A.M.P., designed by Eileen Mayo. It shows a row of four Sydney warehouses that had recently been demolished in preparation for the erection of a tower building for the British Tobacco Co. (Australia) Ltd, along the east side of Circular Quay See also B-131-6-008 for a copy of the finished cover Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and coloured ink on paper glued to card, 237 x 345 mm

Date: [ca 1880s?]

From: Hawkins, C T, fl 1976 :Photographs, mainly New Zealand scenes by the Burton Brothers

By: King, Henry, 1855?-1923

Reference: PA7-49-12

Description: View of the Sydney and shipping on Sydney Harbour from Circular Quay. Photograph taken by Henry King, ca 1880s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 223. Circular Quay, Syd. (H King Photo Syd) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 155 x 208 mm on card 227 x 290 mm