• Title
  [Benelong Point from Dawes Point], ca. 1804?
• Call number
  V1/1810/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1804?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  845583
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour on card - 28 x 51 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Variant title
  
  Untitled
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a1528483
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  This may have been drawn by John Eyre in 1804 after receiving his conditional pardon. The small hut in the centre on the shoreline is thought to be Boston's Salt House. Pinchgut Island is beyond Bennelong Point to the left. The east side of the Cove remains undeveloped.
  
  Reference:
  First views of Australia 1788-1825 : a history of early Sydney / Tim McCormick ... [et al.] ; foreword by Bernard Smith. Chippendale, N.S.W. : David Ell Press in association with Longueville Publications, 1987
• Date note
  
  Undated
• Conservation note
  
  Tears at upper left & right repaired
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  canoes
  sailing boats
  bays
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  
• Place
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  Bennelong Point (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Utzon's Opera House - S.H. Ervin Gallery (22 November, 2013 - 19 January, 2014)

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