• Title
  [View of Retford Hall, Darling Point, Sydney / watercolour by Frederick Garling]
• Creator
  Frederick Garling, 1806-1873
• Call number
  ML 1130
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1866
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  132789
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour - 31.5 x 49.5 cm (sight) - in late-19th/early 20th century bronze-finished frame 47 x 63.3 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Designed by Edmund Blacket in 1865 for leading merchant Anthony Hordern, 'Retford Hall' was one of the most imposing of Darling Point's mansions. It was later demolished in 1967 -- Curator Notes, Frederick Garling exhibition, 2003.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Reproduced in Children of one family : the story of Anthony and Ann Hordern and their descendants in Australia, 1825-1925 / Lesley Hordern. Sydney: Retford Press, 1985, p. 327. Location number: Mitchell Library Q929.20994/H811.1
  
  According to Hordern family tradition probably painted prior to the construction of the house after Edmund Blacket had completed his architectural design. (The Mitchell Library holds Blacket's original plans and drawings for Retford Hall, ref. ZPXD 206/1)
  
  Colour transparency digitised 1999
  
  Copy Print - Small Pictures File/Sydney - Suburbs - Darling Point - Residences - Retford Hall
  Digital order no:a128259
• Topic
  colonial art
  houses
  
• Place
  Retford Hall (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Frederick Garling exhibition - State Library of New South Wales (5 May - 10 August, 2003)
  Town & Country: portraits of Colonial Homes & Gardens - Bendigo Art Gallery (March, 2005 - April, 2006)
  Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens - State Library of New South Wales (September, 2016 - January, 2017)

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