• Title
  Item 4: [Government House with emus], 1853 / drawn by Jacob Janssen
• Call number
  PXD 1493/Item 4
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1853
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  9623548
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour - 25.8 x 34.6 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1 watercolour by Jacob Janssen documenting the new, grand residence for New South Wales governors, completed in 1843. A focal point in the work is the sweeping carriageway that leads up to the entrance and includes a partial view of the grounds; with newly planted Norfolk Island pine trees, floral borders at the edge of the work, and two emus featuring prominently in the foreground.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The emus can also be seen in Frederick Garling’s watercolour of Government House at ML 70.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated lower left: 'J. Janssen, 1853'.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Emus--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
  
• Place
  Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE12883641

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