• Title
  Sempill House [Rockwall], Sydney, NSW, c.1840 / watercolour by unknown artist
• Call number
  SV1A/Darh/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  c.1840
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  421320
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour drawing - on sheet 25.3 x 36.8 cm. image 23.2 x 32.9 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  John Verge started plans for this house in 1830 for engineer surveyor John Busby (1765-1857). The house was completed in 1837 for the then owner Hamilton Collins Sempill. This watercolour shows the view to the north-west from Macleay Street (or Woolloomooloo Road as it was then known). The gates and circular drive were large enough to allow a horse-drawn carriage to make a full turn were the main entrance to the villa.
  Reference: Villas of Darlinghurst exhibition catalogue / State Library of New South Wales. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2002.
  Digital order no:a140031
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  drives
  fences
  gardens
  gates
  houses
  landscapes (views)
  
• Place
  Rockwall (Potts Point, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Villas of Darlinghurst - State Library of New South Wales (28 January - 23 June, 2002)

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