Coombing Park negatives, ca. 1983 / unknown photographer

ON 358

fonds

ca. 1983

Graphic Materials, Photographs

837219

6 photographic prints - proof sheets (approximately 189 frames) - 20.2 x 25.4 cm
Aprroximately 189 negatives (6 sheets) - film - 35 mm
23 negatives - coloured - 35 mm

Sheet A

2-9 Dining Room/Sitting room
Mirror over fireplace and statues were in old Coombing House (see photos in Mitchell Library.) Bookcase originally from “Camden Park”. Dining Table ca.1840 from old Coombing House. Desk made from cedar from the old Coombing House

10—12 New Kitchen on the front verandah
13-14 Old Servery
15—19 In old Kitchen, sideboard from old dining room
20—22 Furniture Store Room
23—25 Storeroom
26 Laundry tubs
27—28 Collection of Empire Mugs etc from a china cabinet in the Drawing Room
29 Front hallway
30 From front hallway looking into the Entrance Hall
31 Colonial Cedar Hall stand
32—33 Blacksmith’s shop - Coombing
34—36 Interior of Coach House
37 Side Entrance to Coach House through the station tool room

Sheet B
1—16 Drawing Room. 11—12 detail of tiles in the fireplace. The fireplace is of Italian white marble with a painting of Miss Thirza Whitney at 5 years of age. Early French clock and vases from the Drawing Room at “Mulabinda” 345 Edgecliff Rd., Sydney, the home of Mr. & Mrs. Selwyn King. There are quite a few items in the Coombing Drawing Room which come from their house; the firescreen from the Royal School of Embroidery London, corner cabinet, painting near it, several vases and small pictures, the “Grey Lady” on round table near a framed photograph of a sea gull taken by E King Esq. No. 13 detail of a marble bust of a boy and girl on top of a Serpentine column.
15—16 detail of a painted face in a door panel

17—20 Cedar door in the Entrance Hall and Brass Spanish Urn on a Candlestick from a Spanish church. Acquired during the Peninsular Wars. Old Clock c1781 in a Colonial Case, the original case being destroyed on journey to Australia in the early days - Cobb & Co Coach lamp and Cobb & Co money box.

21—28 Billiard Room.
22 — showing Colonial Cedar chest of drawers made by a “ticket-of-leave” carpenter for Mrs. F. Whitney when she was first married and lived at “Buckyinguy” on the Marra Creek.
23—24 detail of the Whitney Coat of Arms.
An oak hand carved copy of an Elizabethan Court Cupboard. Cups won at shows for cattle.
25—26 Steel engravings — autographed

29 Entrance Hall stained glass windows
30 Front Hallway looking towards the Dining/Sitting Room at end of hall
31 Sideboard at end of hall — New Zealand wood
32 Opposite sideboard — pair Vienna factory vases signed ca.1754, bought from Lord North’s home in London at the sale at turn of the Century. Both received a crack when the packing case was dropped off the rail truck in Mandurama when they arrived here.
33 Looking down the front hall from this position.
34 Little hall, looking from this same position to the old kitche and servants rooms
35—36 Pantry

Sheet C
1—4 Full length of front ball
S Old print from my mother’s room when she was a little girl in Queensland
6-10 Looking up Bedroom wing hallway
11 Gilded wall mirror from old Coombing House (see photos Mitchei.1 Library)
12—13 Bedroom
14—15 Old steel engravings No. 14 has our ancestor in it. Secretary to Field Marshall Blutcher
16 Rev. P.E.S. King’s collection of framed autographed Sir Russell Drysdale’s Christmas Cards.
17—18 Top Bedroom, was once a kitchen
19-21 Bedroom
22—28 Rev. P.E.S. King’s Bedroom
29 Brown Room (bedroom) fireplace
30 Billiard Room
31—35 Cellar and storage area

Sheet D

1—2 Station hands rest room
3 Victoria and early Petrol Engine
6-19 Shearing Shed — note No. 14 — all the trouble they went to avoid a post coming down in that area.
15 & 17 —Interior of shed
16 - part stone and brick wall
20-32 Stables. Names of famous race horses in their day. Sir Hercules’ skeleton is in the Sydney Museum

Sheet E

1—3 Telephone Room and Dad’s Desk
4-8 In the front hail — painting of F,W. Whitney Esq. a young man and a photo as an old man. Persian Copper on a cedar Regency Console.
9—14 Brown Room (Bedroom entrance from front hallway)
15-18 Front Bedroom. The bed was in old Coombing House (see photos in Mitchell Library). Colonial Cedar Lowboy ca.1840’s belonged to F.W. Whitney Esq.
19—20 Mother’s hand carved figs. Print — the original was done for her Gr. etc. Grandfather Mr. 0. Bloxsome by his friend Sir Oswald Brierly, Marine Painter to H.M. Queen Victoria
21-23 see notes on separate paper
24-25 Top bathroom (mens)
26-31 Audrey and Ewart King’s bedroom
32-33 The second piece of furniture (cedar) made for Mrs. E. Whitney by a “Ticket—of—leave” (convict) carpenter. It is a very interesting piece because it is in the style of 1780’s and made in 1863

Sheet F
1—12 Convict Detention area, now a private Museum of items from around the station.
No. 7 — note door leading into the solitary cell and note hook in ceiling for tying the convicts prior to a whipping
13 Meat Room
14 The Loft above the wool shed
16—18 Old grinder etc at back of Blacksmith’s forge area, looking our window towards the station horse yards

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Transferred from MLMSS 1764 ADD-ON 1541

Rev. Peter King commissioned an unnamed photographer to photograph his parents' house

Reference:
Library correspondence file