• Title
  Corner of O'Connell Street & Bent Street [a view], 1853 / William Butler Simpson
• Creator
  William Butler Simpson
• Call number
  DL Pd 276
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1853
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  901527
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - roughly mounted on paper 18.3 x 26.8 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• General note
  
  Unsigned
  
  Title from pencil note on the mount written by Sir William Dixson.
  
  Foxed, creased at corners, and with paper from previous mount adhering to back.
  
  Keyword subject:
  T., D.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Attribution to Simpson from ink note on back reading 'Min from W B S / Dec 31t 53.'
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  In spite of being placed among other drawings by Simpson, this was attributed to 'D.T.' by Sir William Dixson in his contents list of the album in which he mounted it, apparently from a misreading of the date.
• Date note
  
  Dated at lower right 'Dec. 1853'
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  streetscapes
  city & town views
  
• Place
  O'Connell Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Bent Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8769120

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