• Title
  [Granthamville House, Potts Point, Sydney, N.S.W., ca 1845-1850 / watercolour attributed to Frederick Garling]
• Call number
  V/319
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca 1845-1850]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  9606268
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour and pencil on paper - 30.5 x 44.6 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  In 1836 Felix Caleb Wilson, a wealthy merchant and ironmonger, purchased five acres at Potts Point where he proposed to build his residence, ‘Caleb Castle’ (later known as ‘Grantham’). Designed by an unknown architect in the same Gothic Revival style as the new Government House, it was considered pretentious and derided as ‘The Pepper Pot’ because of its turrets, or ‘Frying Pan Castle’, a reference to Wilson’s occupation. During the early 1840s it was purchased by another merchant, Frederick Parbury who renamed it ‘Granthamville’. In 1853 the house was acquired by Henry Dangar who made such extensive renovations to it that eventually it became known as ‘Dangar’s Castle.’ It was demolished in 1937.
  
  Reference: Villas of Darlinghurst by Avryl Whitnall, 2002
• Collection history
  Peter Pickle of Pickle's Auctions, then Vince Day
• Scope and Content
  1 watercolour drawing of the Potts Point mansion 'Granthamville'. The mansion was built in the Gothic revival architectural style amongst other mansions and villas in the Woolloomooloo Hill/Potts Point area of Sydney. Several other villas are seen in the drawing. In the foreground is a speeding carriage and horse being chased by a small dog.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Untitled. Titled by cataloguer.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned.
  Paper watermarked J W on the upper side [J. Whatman].
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attributed to Garling on the basis of stylistic similarities, paper quality and sheet size to other examples of his work in the Mitchell collections. See Dawes Point, ca 1855, DG V1A/34, and Retford Hall, ML 1130.
• Date note
  
  No date. Date based on the time the house was occupied by Frederick Parbury.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Garling, Frederick, 1806-1873
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Artists--Australia--19th century.
  
• Topic
  mansions
  horsedrawn carriages
  entrance gates
  Gothic revival (architecture)
  colonial art
  
• Place
  Potts Point (N.S.W.)
  Grantham (Potts Point, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20034768

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