Dated from article in Sydney Morning Herald 13 May 1859 p.9 reporting that Mr W. Hetzer's stereoscopic views of Sydney and its environs 'now numbers upwards of sixty slides', and include ''Campbell's Wharf". This photograph has been attributed to William Hetzer based on the series title 'Sydney Cove, Australia No.3' inscribed on the verso of the stereograph. A very similar view has been attributed to Edward Wolstenholme Ward and published in Josef Lebovic & Joanne Cahill, eds.
Masterpieces of Australian photography Paddington, Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1989, pp.51-52 (no.50).
Captain (later Sir) E W Ward, RE, was first Deputy Master of the Sydney Mint which opened in Sydney in May 1855. In 1856, along with Governor Denison and Professor John Smith, professor of chemistry at Sydney University, Ward was one of the driving forces in the formation of the Philosophical Society of NSW as a forum for original papers on subjects of science, art, literature and philosophy. Ward read papers to the Society and exhibited stereographs in photographic 'conversaziones' held by the Society. At an exhibition held in December 1859 Robert Hunt, also of the Mint, exhibited "twenty-three stereographs, from collodion negatives, by Messrs. Hunt, Jevons, Moresby, and Captain Ward". Hetzer's contribution to the exhibition included 100 stereographs. [ref: Sydney Morning Herald 22 December 1859 p.4] Ward lived at Dawes Battery, on Dawes Point.
