• Title
  Roof tops, Macleay Street, Sydney, 1942 / watercolour by Sydney Ure Smith
• Creator
  Sydney Ure Smith, 1887-1949
• Call number
  V1A/Pot P/3
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1942
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  421336
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour drawing with pencil underdrawing - on sheet 29.2 x 36.7 cm. image 22.4 x 31.7 cm.
  
• General note
  
  This view over the roof tops of Macleay Street towards the city gives an idea of how Darlinghurst had changed from a spacious haven for the wealthy to a crowded, high-rise, inner city suburb by the 1940s.
  Reference: Villas of Darlinghurst exhibition catalogue / State Library of New South Wales. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2002.
  "re this picture: in `Society of Artists', 1942 book, page 69: of Sydney Ure Smith's Water Colour Drawing of `Macleay St. Potts Point', Sydney. Described as `a particularly interesting piece of work' in which a difficult perspective problem was most successfully solved" ... information from back of old mount
  Digital order no:a140005
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated at lower left edge.
• Topic
  roofs
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Darlinghurst (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Villas of Darlinghurst - State Library of New South Wales (28 January - 23 June, 2002)
  Kings Cross - Bohemian Sydney - Elizabeth Bay House
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3202837

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