• Title
  Scenes of Burdekin House, Macquarie St., Sydney and other pictorial material belonging to the Sydney Burdekin Estate, ca. 1862-1945
• Creator
  John B. (John Barclay) Godson, 1882-1957
  Sydney Ure Smith, 1887-1949
  Edward Warner, 1879-1968
• Call number
  PXE 1110/Box 2/17-62
  PXD 1114/63-64; 66-73
  V/115
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1862-1945
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Photographs, Prints, Drawings, Ephemera
• Reference code
  119563
• Physical Description
  2 architectual drawings - 43 x 51 cm, or smaller
  44 photoprints (including 10 cartes de visite) - on mount 40 x 28.5 cm, or smaller
  7 prints - etchings, lithographs - image 32 x 19 cm, or smaller
  3 drawings - watercolour, pencil, ink - image 16 x 25.5 cm, or smaller
  6 postcards
  
• Scope and Content
  Contains photographs, etchings & architectural drawings of Burdekin House, including facade, interiors and plans of proposed billiard room. Portraits of Sydney Burdekin as Mayor of Sydney, 1890-91. Views of other buildings, including the building conversion of "Burdekin Square" Crown St. terraces; S.C.E.G.S (Shore School); cartes de visite of Stone House, Wilberforce, built 1817. A watercolour drawing of Stone House, Hawkesbury N.S.W. / by "S. B. 1862"
  
  Sydney photographers include: American & Australasian Photographic Company, 324 George St; Australian Photographic Company, 209 Castlereagh St; Hall & Co, 44 Hunter St; Praeger Empire Studios, George St; Milton Kent, Sydney; and Cameron Photo, Maitland, N.S.W.
  
  Collection also contains a carte de visite photograph of H.M.S. Galatea, ship of H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh, 1867. A lithographic portrait of Baron Ferd. von Mueller presented to Sydney Burdekin 1896 for his most generous support of Dr Leichhardt's expeditions. Scene of S.S. River Burdekin and postcards of Barracluff's Ostrich Farm, South Head, N.S.W.
  
  Forms part of MLMSS 147
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  No.65 transferred to V/115, 1/2/06
  
  Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.1091 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012
  Digital order no:Album ID : 877653
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  No. 40-41. "John B. Godson" at lower edge
  No. 65-67. "S. Ure Smith"; "Sydney Ure Smith" at lower edge
  No. 39, 68. "E. Warner" at lower edge
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  No. 39, 68: Previously attributed to Ernest Warner, born 1902. Further research and comparison with works held at the National Gallery, indicate Edward Warner, born 1879, is the artist.
  
  References (all accessed 17 June 2024):
  https://joseflebovicgallery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/upload/CL_137_Warner_PARAS.pdf?auto=webp
  https://daao.library.unsw.edu.au/bio/ernest-warner/biography/
  https://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/9119/
• Name
  Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von, 1825-1896
  River Burdekin (ship)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Burdekin, Sydney, 1839-1899.
  Carte de visite photographs.
  Galatea (Ship).
  Portraits.
  
• Topic
  interiors
  architectural drawings
  billiard rooms
  building renovations
  furniture
  houses
  ships
  streetscapes
  
• Place
  Burdekin House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Burdekin Square (Crown Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Church of England Grammar School (North Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE934649

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