Photograph of a ship and is possibly HMS Bacchante in Farm Cove, Sydney, with the dome of the Exhibition Building or Garden Palace and Botanic Gardens that were visited by Prince's Albert Victor and George visible in the background. 

On July 14th 1881, HMS bacchante anchored at Farm Cove in Sydney. Prince Albert Victor and Prince George noted in their account of the voyage f the Bacchante that HMS Wolverine was also moored.

This is a photograph from one of the nine albums compiled following Prince Albert Victor (1864-92) and Prince George of Wales' (1865-1936) world tour aboard HMS Bacchante from 1879 to 1882. The photographs were collected by their chaperon and tutor, John Neale Dalton.

The majority of the images in these albums are topographical views and architectural studies, loosely arranged according to the group’s itinerary. They include photographs of artefacts, local people and public figures, as well as portraits of the princes taken during the tour. The attempt to recreate the experience of a journey through such an assortment of images is common to many amateur travelling albums of this period. In 1886, some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced as engravings in the published accounts of the voyage, The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882.