A panoramic view of Woolloomooloo Bay from Old South Head Road, 1842 / John Rae

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1842

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A panoramic view on three separate sheets.

Item 01: Old South Head Rd, now Oxford St, 1842 / John Rae
Item 02: A view of Woolloomooloo Bay in the old days. From Old South Head Road, 1842 / John Rae
Item 03: Old South Head Road with Sir Edward Deas Thomson's House and windmills at Woolloomooloo, 1842 / John Rae

Title from The Cyclopedia of NSW, 1904. Title on original mount was Woolloomooloo Bay and New South Head Road. Remounted 1985.
Although signature and date appear to be genuine, dating is in doubt as another drawing in the series by Rae, DG SV*/Sp Coll/Rae/10, shows a building not completed until 1845. The pictures may have been signed between 1891, when a photographic edition of the unsigned views was first published, and 1900 when Rae died.

Looking East - S.H. Ervin Gallery (20 October - 18 November, 1984)
Painted panorama 1800-1870: paintings from the Mitchell and Dixson collections of the State Library of New South Wales - Blaxland Gallery (November, 1985 - November, 1985)