• Title
  Pencil sketches and one ink sketch of Sydney Streets showing architectural features of various private and public buildings, 1914-1928 / Ashley Cooper
• Creator
  Ashley Cooper
• Call number
  DG*D 28
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1914-1928
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  837445
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  16 drawings - various sizes - 15 pencil and one ink sketch
  
• Scope and Content
  1. ‘Bulletin Place - Circular Quay’. Ink sketch, signed and titled at lower right.
  2. ‘Globe St. Circular Quay 27’. Signed at lower left. Titled at lower right.
  3. ‘Globe St. off George St. North Circular Quay’. Copy made by the artist 1965 of f.2. Signed at lower right. Titled at lower left.
  4. ‘Cab Stables Cumberland St.’ Signed at lower right. Titled at lower left. Etching, presumably from this, is at PX*D 39 f.2 dated ‘1914’.
  5. ‘Old Mill Duncan Street Sydney’. Signed at lower left. Titled at lower right. Etching, presumably from this, is at PX *D39 f.l0.
  Note on verso ‘Adjoined Harpur’s Mill which was on Steammill Street. This could be Dickson or Duncan St’ (information from artist).
  6. ‘Auto Place - 170 George St. 10.3.28’. Signed at lower left. Titled at lower right.
  7. ‘Old Stores Central Street Sydney.’ Signed at lower right. Titled at lower left. On verso ‘Now Police Station & Central Court’ in hand of artist.
  8. ‘Courtyard Durno’s Chambers Pitt St.’ Signed at lower left. Titled at lower right.
  9. ‘Old Doorway Deans Place’. Signed at lower left. Titled at lower right.
  10. ‘Burdekin House, Coach Entrance’. Signed at lower right. Titled at centre left.
  11. ‘Coach Entrance - Burdekin House’. Copy made by the artist 1965 of f.10. Signed lower right. Titled lower left.
  12. ‘The Old Mint - Sydney - 1927’. Signed at lower left. Titled at lower right.
  13. ‘Balcony Rear of Mint’. Signed at lower left. Titled at lower right.
  14. ‘Demolishing “The Mint” 1927’. Signed at lower left. Titled at lower right.
  15. ‘Five Dock’. Signed at lower right. Titled at lower left. Shows a windmill on Rodd Island (formerly Rodd’s Estate). Information supplied by Mr. Cooper.
  16. ‘Shot Tower Camperdown’. Signed at lower left. Titled at lower right.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project 2008-2009
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  All are signed and titled.
• Date note
  
  Three are dated 1927 and one 1928. Etching, probably from sketch no. 4, is at PX*D 39 f.2 dated ‘1914’.
• Topic
  official buildings
  buildings, structures & establishments
  
• Place
  Bulletin Place (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Globe Street (The Rocks, N.S.W.)
  Cumberland Street (The Rocks, N.S.W.)
  Duncan Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8635507

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