• Title
  Collection of watercolour drawings of Paddington, Double Bay and Rose Bay by George Roberts 1860-1864
• Creator
  George Roberts, ca. 1800-1865
• Call number
  PXD 817
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1860 - 1865
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  404021
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 11 watercolour drawings on paper heat-pressed onto backing paper
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  George Roberts, a theatre scene painter, lived in Paddington in the late 1850s and early 1860s and made many drawings of the area. He lived in Victoria Street in Paddington in the 1860s.
  
  Reference:
  Sand Sydney Directory (1863)
• Scope and Content
  1. Albion Mills March 3rd 1840 [1841]
  Inscribed faintly in pencil at lower right: `Albion Mills 3rd March 1840'
  24.3 x 36.9 cm
  
  Albion Mills and Inn, at Darling Harbour, were destroyed by fire on the night of 3rd March 1841. It is possible a later drawing made by Roberts - from memory - some years after an event which took place on 3 March 1841
  Reference:
  The Australian, 4 March 1841 p.2
  
  2. Creek Fishers Bush
  Inscribed at lower right `GR 1862’; on the reverse in a later hand `Bridge on Point Piper Road’
  26.1 x 30.7 cm
  
  3. Creek in Fishers Bush
  17.1 x 24.2 cm
  
  4. The Creek Fishers Bush
  Inscribed at lower right `GR 1862’
  16.8 x 25.2 cm
  
  5. Rocks Fishers Creek
  Inscribed at lower centre `GR 1862’
  14.9 x 25 cm
  
  It is likely that the Fishers Creek watercolours (nos 2-5) show a bush in Paddington, possibly near the Glenmore Falls, or the stream which fed it. A Mr Fisher leased the Glenmore Distillery in the early 1850s. Point Piper Road is now Jersey Road.
  Reference:
  Paddington Municipal Council, "Paddington. Its history, trade and Industries, 1860-1910", 1910 (1980), p.17
  
  6. Double Bay
  24.8 x 31.8 cm
  
  7. Unidentified building, probably in the Paddington district
  15.1 x 23 cm
  
  8. Building on Old South Head Road
  Inscribed at lower right `GR 1864’
  16.4 x 25.4 cm
  
  9. Building on Old South Head Road
  Inscribed at lower left `GR 1864’
  15.4 x 23.5 cm
  
  10. Victoria Street, Paddington
  Inscribed in pencil in a later hand on reverse `Victoria Street Paddington'. The source and accuracy of this inscription are unknown.
  32 x 51.1 cm
  
  11. Rose Bay
  Titled beneath image: `Rose Bay'
  31.5 x 51 cm
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
• General note
  
  The Library has two other collections of his work at DL Px 52 and PXA 2961. The City of Sydney Public Library also has a collection of 9 watercolours, copies of which are at PXB 104.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 903242
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Art, Australian--19th century.
  
• Topic
  creeks
  fires
  hotels & taverns
  
• Place
  Old South Head Road (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Paddington (N.S.W.)
  Double Bay (N.S.W.)
  Albion Mills (Darling Harbour, N.S.W.)
  Rose Bay (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3147567

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