• Title
  Supreme Court House, Sydney N.S.W., 1845 / painted by G. E. Peacock
• Creator
  G. E. (George Edwards) Peacock, b. 1806
• Call number
  ML 659
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, East Wall, no. 99
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1845
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  404721
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on commercial artists' board - 14 x 19 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  Government House can also be seen in the distance
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  In the late 1830s the Government Architect, Mortimer Lewis, designed the Supreme Court House (still standing on Oxford Street in Darlinghurst). Its severely classical form was much admired: Louisa Anne Meredith thought it the only `architectural' building in Sydney, while James Maclehose considered it representative of the `cottages, villas, and even mansions, partaking of a grandeur of character which could not have been contemplated in the early history of the colony [but which] are now to be seen in almost every direction...'
  Reference: George Edwards Peacock exhibition catalogue. State Library of New South Wales, 2002
  Digital order no:a128045
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled, signed & dated "G.E. Peacock 1845" -- on label on reverse
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  courthouses
  
• Place
  Darlinghurst (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Picture Gallery 1 - State Library of New South Wales (15 February - 15 November, 1999)
  George Edwards Peacock - State Library of New South Wales (May, 2002 - August, 2002)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8861340

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