• Title
  [View of "Mona", Darling Point]
• Call number
  SPF/735
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1872
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  414113
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - albumen photoprint - 15.2 x 29.1 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Rushcutters Bay at right
• General note
  
  A two storey Regency mansion, built for businessman & politican, Thomas Ware Smart (1810-1881). In July 1861, Smart opened his valuable picture gallery at Mona to the public. The gallery, attached to the house, overlooked Rushcutters Bay. Smart died at Mona in 1881.
  References:
  Australian Heritage Commission : Register of the National Estate Database, Nov 2001
  Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.6 ""Thomas Ware Smart""
  Some houses and people of New South Wales / by G. Nesta Griffiths. Sydney : Ure Smith, [1949].
  Digital order no:a089735
  This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  c.1872 below image at right
• Topic
  mansions
  panoramic views
  
• Place
  Mona (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
  

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