• Title
  Tusculum, Macleay Street, Potts Point [residence of the Long family] / Sargent, Manly
• Creator
  William Sargent
• Call number
  SPF/721
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  undated [ca. 1886-1888]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  414150
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - albumen photoprint - image 15.2 x 20.1 cm., on mount 25.3 x 30.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For biographical details about politician and race-horse owner William Alexander Long (1839-1915) see the Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol.5
• Scope and Content
  William Alexander Long (seated left); Mrs Isabella Long Snr. (nee Walford) (standing on steps); Man seated on the steps, appears to be William Bede Dalley (Dalley married Eleanor Jane Long). "Sparke" probably refers to members of the Sparke family (at right).
• General note
  
  Tusculum, designed by John Verge, was originally built for merchant A. B. Spark in 1831-35.
  Sparke family connection - Isabella Long's (nee Walford) sister Mary married John Tovey Simons in Hobart 1819. They had 4 children. After John Simons died in 1829, Mary married John Sparke in Sydney 1830. They had 6 children.
  Photograph dated from the first listing of photographer Wm. Sargent, The Corso, Manly, in Sands' Sydney Directory 1886, and the death of W. B. Dalley in October 1888.
  See also:
  Portrait of The Hon. William Alexander Long, Colonial Treasurer, from August 17, 1877 to December 17, 1877 (P3/L Mitchell Library)
  Portraits of Mrs Isabella Long in the `Martin family portraits' (PXA 114 nos.39-40. Mitchell Library)
  W.B. Dalley identified from portrait at P1/D Mitchell Library
  Digital order no:a089721
  This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Mr Long, Mrs Long Snr, Sparke" -- below image
  "Sargent" -- below image at left. "Manly" -- below image at right
  Titled at lower edge of mount
• Name
  Dalley, William Bede, 1831-1888
  Long, Isabella, d. 1894
  Long, William Alexander, 1839-1915
  Sparke family
  
• Topic
  families
  mansions
  ponies
  
• Place
  Tusculum (Potts Point, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1231090

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