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A wet sheet and a flowing sea

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Public Domain
Public Domain
Type
Photographic postcards
Place
Sydney Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Materials
Ink, Paper
Collection
Josef Lebovic Gallery collection no. 1
Accession number
1986.0117.6464

Description

A blue-toned photographic postcard of a large sailing boat sailing at speed, captioned "A wet sheet and a flowing sea". The front of the card features handwritten annotations identifying the sailors on the boat as "DART", "FRANK" and "COLORADO", and below the image, "homeward bound". The card is sent from Wyndella and is dated "6/10/07". It begins "Dear Dart ...".

Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 5:31:47 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2026-09-30. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.