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From: "Lesley Uebel" <>
Subject: RE: [PJ] Circular Quay
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 20:30:38 +1100
In-Reply-To: <20041107092109.84209.qmail@web54010.mail.yahoo.com>


There are a few sketches on Picman circa. 1839 of Circular Quay that you can use
a comparison

http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/picman/


regards

Lesley Uebel
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-----Original Message-----
From: Grahame Cheers [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 8:21 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [PJ] Circular Quay


> Hi Lesley and Listers,
>
> I have (says he rather proudly) a 1971 silk screen
> original by John A Hussey titled Circular Quay 1840
> mounted above my computer desk. It is about 55 x 38
> cms in size and shows six or seven ships anchored
> out in the water off the Quay and about 10 ships
> along side a wooden wharf which I would guess to be
> about four to five metres wide, made of timber and
> runs around most of Circular Quay. There are some
> groups of people that look like they are either
> loading or unloading the ships and also horse and
> buggies carrying goods, and two coaches, one with
> something written across the side that I cannot
> read.
>
> The picture, I think (been a while since I’ve been
> there, would be looking to about a north or north
> easterly direction. Near the bottom left there is a
> set of steps that look much the same as the old
> steps that go down to the water where many years ago
> I caught a Captain Cook harbor cruise.
>
> On the other side of the Quay ( on the way to where
> the Opera House now stands, there are some two and
> three story buildings, which I take as warehouses of
> some type.
>
> The only questions I have about the picture is (and
> I may be wrong), is that the buildings seem to be
> out of character with the time and did they have
> coach services running at that time to? I do not
> know if the artist has copied it from something he
> has seen or whether it is only his impression of the
> time. It at least gives some idea of how Circular
> Quay looked back in those days.
>
> Anyone got some thoughts about the picture?
>
> Grahame Cheers.
Canberra.
>
>
>

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