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152526
  • Title
    Bank of N.S. Wales Sydney [George Street Sydney], ca. 1855
  • Call number
    ML 1168
    Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, West Wall, no. 50
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1855
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    152526
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    1 painting - 40.8 x 55.6 cm; in frame 51.3 x 66.5 cm - oil, in contemporary[?] frame
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    ca. 1855 (Thomas Garton's drapery shop, visible at right, is listed in Waugh & Cox's Directory of Sydney and its suburbs (1855), but the 1857 Cox & Co.'s Sydney Post Office Directory lists O'Donell, Hitchens & Co as the occupants of the site.

    4 paintings held in Mitchell Library are all titled in brushpoint on the canvas, in a similar hand (ML 257, 377, 445, 1168). Better artists were less likely to title their work on the actual painting, so indications are that these 4 works were produced by a lesser-known artist working from a superior original oil by a more prominent artist, to sell to a broader popular market. See individual records for details of the works from which the imitations may have been made.

    This oil is reasonably close to a wood engraving after Frederick Terry entitled View in George-Street, Sydney including the Bank of New South Wales, the Commercial Bank and the Post Office, published in the Illustrated Sydney News on 9 September 1854. Another version of this engraving (from "Old Times", April 1903, p. 57) is now at J.M. Forde, "Album of newspaper illustrations" vol.5 p.2.

    Reference:
    ML Pictures Curator, Dec. 2003
    Digital order no:Album ID : 874383
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Painting is titled in brushpoint at bottom right
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