Item #6229 Horse Ferry, Sydney Harbour c1899. Gordon Coutts.
Horse Ferry, Sydney Harbour c1899
Horse Ferry, Sydney Harbour c1899
Gordon Coutts

1868 - 1937

Horse Ferry, Sydney Harbour c1899

Oil on canvas
30 x 47 cm
Signed

Provenance: Sotheby's, Sydney, December, 1994, No. 168; Private collection, Killara until 2020

Exhibited: Gordon Coutts' exhibition of works prior to his departure for Europe, 26 Hunter Street Sydney, 1899, No. 27

The Horse Ferry Service in Sydney was established at Balmain in 1891 and travelled across the harbour to Blues Point.


By 1899 there was also a horse ferry running between Circular Quay and Milson’s Point. 

See also a tinted photograph of Horse Ferry Barangaroo (1890-1933)

Bought by the State Library of NSW

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