Eric Thompson drawings and photographs of historic buildings

PXD 1552

fonds

approximately 1950-1973

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs, Textual Records

9649967

94 drawings (5 boxes) - pencil, ink, on paper
36 photographic prints (1 box) - gelatin silver

Eric Thompson (1901-1978) worked as a newspaper cartoonist before studying as an architect. He moved to the United States in 1927 and worked for MGM Studios as an art director for 10 years. He returned to Sydney in 1937 and joined Cinesound where he met and married Nancy Stuart Gurr. He continued to work extensively in film until his retirement, when he pursued his interest in drawing and heritage architecture.
Reference: Library Acquisition file

By descent to Erica Aronsten

Drawings and sketches of historic houses, colonial buildings and heritage styles predominantly relating to New South Wales, with Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia also represented. The drawings are accompanied by photographic prints used as source material, and some textual material.

BOX 1
1. Adelaide Cub, Adelaide, South Australia
2. Bassett House, Bathurst, N.S.W.
3. Bath Inn, Tasmania
4. Bath House, Parramatta Park
5. Berrima House
6. Bloody Bridge
7. [Captain Cook’s Cottage, Sydney]
8. [Cadmans Cottage, The Rocks, N.S.W.]
9. [Castlemaine Market]
10. [Church bell, details]
11. Courthouse, Bathurst, N.S.W.
12. Courthouse, Hartley, N.S.W.
13. Dalwood, Branxton, N.S.W. 1830
14. Daylesford, Carcoar, N.S.W.
15. Early Australian house?
16. Early colonial cottage, Appin, N.S.W
17. Early colonial farmhouse, Appin, N.S.W.
18. Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta
19. Elizabeth Farm, [Parramatta]
20. Emu Bottom, Sunbury, Victoria
21. Entally House, [Hadspen, Tasmania]
22. [Farmhouse, south of Kilmore, Victoria]
23. Forbes Street
24. [Funerary monument for James Ebenezer Bicheno, St. David’s Park, Hobart]
25. [Funerary monument for Archdeacon William Hutchins, St David’s Park, Hobart]
26. Gallows Gate
27. Gaol entrance
28. Georgian House, Campbelltown, [N.S.W.]
29. Glenmore Road, Paddington, [N.S.W.]
30. Golden Pippin Inn, Peel, N.S.W.
31. [Historic house], Goulburn
32. Government House
33. Hotel entrance, Paddington, N.S.W.
34. John Tebbutt Observatory, Windsor
35. Buildings, Lower Fort Street, The Rocks
36. [Lower Fort Street]
37. [Lower Fort Street, The Rocks, N.S.W. : details of door, door knockers and iron railings]
38. [Lower Fort Street, The Rocks, N.S.W. : details of doorway and ironwork]

BOX 2
39. Military Barracks, Ross, Tasmania
40. Mint building, Sydney
41. Mount Victoria Inn 1865
42. Oak Lodge, Richmond, Tasmania
43. Old flour mill, Richmond, Tasmania
44. [Old Government House portico, Parramatta]
45. Old gun emplacement, Bradley’s Head, [N.S.W]
46. Old hotel, Paterson, N.S.W.
47. Old house, Nowra
48. Old store, Goat Island, [N.S.W.]
49. Portion old hospital building 1811
50. Picton Church, Western Australia (1842),
51. Public School, Carcoar, N.S.W.
52. Richmond Bridge, Richmond, Tasmania
53. Service quarter, Tasmania
54. St Jude’s Church, Dural, 1846
55. St Paul’s Carcoar, N.S.W
56. St Thomas the Apostle, Church of England, Port Macquarie, N.S.W.
57. Stables Frankfield, Gunning, N.S.W.
58. Stoke house, Carcoar, N.S.W.
59. Stoke stables, Carcoar, N.S.W. / [Building in Braidwood, N.S.W.]
60. Sturt’s Cottage, ‘Grange’, Adelaide, South Australia
61. [Terrace houses]
62. The Arches
63. The Gala Church, Cranbrook, 1843
64. The Old Manse, East Maitland, N.SW. 1848
65. The Old Manse, East Maitland, N.S.W. 1848
66. Toll House, Windsor, N.S.W.
67. Town Hall, Brisbane, Queensland
68. University, Perth
69. Vaucluse House, Sydney
70. Vaucluse House, Sydney
71. Vaucluse House, servant’s quarters, Sydney
72. Wall fountain, Berrima Gaol
73. Wentworth Cottage
74. Wollogarang, N.S.W.
75. [Unidentified house]
76. [Unidentified colonial house]
77. [Unidentified building]

BOX 3
78. Hyde Park Barracks 1819
79. Liverpool Hospital
80. Lower Fort Street, The Rocks
81. Lower Fort Street, The Rocks
82. Old Bond Store, George Street, The Rocks
83. Susannah Place, The Rocks
84. Terraces, The Rocks

BOX 4
85. Entrance Royal Tennis Courts, Davey Street, Hobart Tasmania
86. Folk Museum, Tasmania
87. Hotel Longford, Tasmania
88. Murray Street, Hobart
89. Richmond Hotel, Tasmania
90. Salamanca Place, Hobart

BOX 5
91. Bellevue, Epping Forest, Tasmania
92. Dalwood, Branxton, N.S.W. 1830
93. [Unidentified colonial house]
94. Bond Store, Morpeth, N.S.W. 1840
95. Tallantyres, Tasmania
Large envelope inscribed 'Drawings made for book 'early colonial buildings', list of drawings not sold'

BOX 6
Black and white photographic prints (36) of historic houses

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