General Post Office, Sydney, after 1845 / F.G. Lewis and E. Winstanley

V1/Pub/GPO/5

fonds

After 1845

Graphic Materials, Prints

844929

1 print - lithograph - size of view 11 1/4 x 16 3/4, size of mount 16 1/2 x 21 7/8 in.

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009

In lower left of view 'F.G. Lewis & E. Winstanley'

Lithographed title cut and pasted on mount

A label hand written in ink and attached to mount reads 'George Street in the late forties. A front view of the Post Office of that time. The Doric columns were added in 1847 but the building was pulled down to make way for the present General Post Office which was completed in 1847. It will be noticed that in those days there was no street on the present site of Martin Place. The same view was drawn by Gill in 1856 (see no. 98). The Royal Mail coach is shown and the figure on the extreme right is evidently intended for the Flying Pieman who used to beat the coach to Parramatta for a wager. Lithograph by F.G. Lewis and E. Winstanley, probably drawn by Winstanley and lithographed by Lewis. Edward Winstanley was an animal and marine painter who died in 1849 at the early age of twenty-eight.'