Image: StateLibQld 2 305410 Image of a watercolour painting of Moreton Bay Settlement New South Wales in 1835

Description: Image of a watercolour painting of Moreton Bay Settlement New South Wales in 1835. Note that Queensland did not become a colony separate from New South Wales until 1859. This panorama landscape depicts the Moreton Bay Settlement in 1835. The viewpoint is from South Brisbane, on the site now occupied by the Queensland Cultural Centre. The Brisbane landscape and buildings of the period are depicted. Buildings depicted are the Windmill, with a fence in front and the treadmill building to the left; the row of buildings from left to right are the surgeon’s cottage and convict and military hospitals (three low set buildings in a row); the convict barracks, a multi-storey building with a walled yard; the military barracks, a multi-storey building with a low set guard house just visible to the left; the Engineer’s House, used during Bowerman’s time as offices for the commandant and commissariat staff; the kitchen for, and then the Parsonage building, which by 1835 was being used as quarters for commissariat staff; the Commissariat Stores buildings, with an arched wharf with a crane and sentry box to the front, a small boat house to the left of the wharf, and boat builders hut and storeroom to the right of the wharf; and the Commandant’s House, with a small kitchen/convicts’ quarters building to the left. The building in the far right of the painting, shown behind a row of trees growing on the river bank, was the Government Gardeners house.
Title: StateLibQld 2 305410 Image of a watercolour painting of Moreton Bay Settlement New South Wales in 1835
Credit: Item is held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
Author: Bowerman, Henry Boucher, 1789-1840
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No