• Title
  Burning of the Garden Palace from Eaglesfield, Darlinghurst, sketched at 5.55am, Sep 22/82 / watercolour by unknown artist
• Call number
  SSV/137
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1882
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1336725
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour - 16 x 25.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Eaglesfield was a school on Darlinghurst Road. Originally named 'The New School' it was renamed Eaglesfield in 1879, after Robert Eaglesfield, founder of Queen's College Oxford.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  Item is a depiction of the fire which broke out at The Garden Palace at about 5:40 a.m. on 22 September 1882, which totally consumed the building in around 40 minutes. It appears to have been created as the Palace was burning.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed at beneath picture 'Burning of Garden Palace, From Eaglesfield Darlinghurst, Sketched at 5.55 a.m. Sep 22/82'
• Subject
  Art, Australian--19th century.
  Fires--New South Wales.
  Botanical gardens--New South Wales--Sydney.
  
• Topic
  botanical gardens
  fires
  watercolours
  
• Place
  Garden Palace (Domain, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8852780

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