• Title
  Bank of N.S. Wales Sydney [George Street Sydney], ca. 1855
• Call number
  ML 1168
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, West Wall, no. 50
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1855
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  152526
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil, in contemporary[?] frame - 40.8 x 55.6 cm; in frame 51.3 x 66.5 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  ca. 1855 (Thomas Garton's drapery shop, visible at right, is listed in Waugh & Cox's Directory of Sydney and its suburbs (1855), but the 1857 Cox & Co.'s Sydney Post Office Directory lists O'Donell, Hitchens & Co as the occupants of the site.
  
  4 paintings held in Mitchell Library are all titled in brushpoint on the canvas, in a similar hand (ML 257, 377, 445, 1168). Better artists were less likely to title their work on the actual painting, so indications are that these 4 works were produced by a lesser-known artist working from a superior original oil by a more prominent artist, to sell to a broader popular market. See individual records for details of the works from which the imitations may have been made.
  
  This oil is reasonably close to a wood engraving after Frederick Terry entitled View in George-Street, Sydney including the Bank of New South Wales, the Commercial Bank and the Post Office, published in the Illustrated Sydney News on 9 September 1854. Another version of this engraving (from "Old Times", April 1903, p. 57) is now at J.M. Forde, "Album of newspaper illustrations" vol.5 p.2.
  
  Reference:
  ML Pictures Curator, Dec. 2003
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874383
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Painting is titled in brushpoint at bottom right
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  banks
  commercial establishments
  shops
  streetscapes
  
• Place
  Bank of New South Wales (cnr. George & Wynyard Streets, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Commercial Banking Company of Sydney (cnr Barrack Street and George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  David Jones Ltd (George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  George Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Pride of place - State Library of New South Wales (27 September - 29 November, 2004)
  On Sale! Shops & Shopping - State Library of New South Wales (August, 2011 - November, 2011)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1120465

View Media Files

1.

2.

Show more