• Title
  Part of Sydney & St James' Church from the square called the Race Course, 1844 / Jacob Janssen (attributed)
• Call number
  SSV/134
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1844
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1184339
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour - visible image 8.5 x 12.5 cm
  
• Collection history
  Formerly held in the family collection of Lawrence James (Larry Adler) from 1931-1988 Reference: Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  The perspective of this drawing looks northward from the corner of what is now Park Street and College Street, Sydney. In the foreground is the line of College Street with the fenced, cleared area of the Race Course (Hyde Park) to its left and another empty area to the right where St Mary's Cathedral now stands. In the distance is St James Church, Hyde Park Barracks, the Supreme Court building, and other buildings in the vicinity of Elizabeth and Macquarie Street.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title and date of drawing taken from inscription on verso of drawing
• General note
  
  Another version of the same view (at call number SSV / 81), dated 1847 and attributed to either Jacob Janssen or Charles Roduis, includes some details which are not featured in this work. These include people in and around the race course; a horse drawn vehicle travelling along the main road and a Norfolk Pine at the end of the road.
  Digital order no:c022110001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed on verso: 'Part of Sydney & St James' Church from the square called the Race Course 1844'
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Janssen, Jacob, 1779-1856
  
• Subject
  Art, Australian--19th century.
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Sydney (N.S.W.) in art
  
• Topic
  churches
  racecourses
  historic buildings
  parks
  unsealed roads
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Hyde Park (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  St. James' Church (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Old Supreme Court (corner Elizabeth & King Streets, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Hyde Park Barracks (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3325004

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