Bomera and Clopee, Potts Point, [between 1856 and 1878] / by George F. Halsted
Bomera and Clopee, Potts Point, [between 1856 and 1878] / by George F. Halsted
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Date
[between 1856 and 1878]
Call Numbers
V/317
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Physical Description
Contents
1 watercolour - 26 x 47 cm
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Fonds
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Watercolour on paper of the view from Garden Island looking across Woolloomooloo Bay towards Potts Point, showing the two marine villas Clopee, on the left, and Bomera. In the gardens of Bomera are a small summer house and a waterfront building, possibly a bathing pavilion. Two of the buildings in the background are probably Hyde Park Barracks and...
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Full title
Bomera and Clopee, Potts Point, [between 1856 and 1878] / by George F. Halsted
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed lower left 'F. Halsted'
Date note
Dated from time between erection of Bomera and addition of ballroom
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Day Fine Art, July 2017
Administrative / Biographical history
George Frederick Halsted was an artist who painted Sydney and other scenes in oil and watercolour during the 1850s to 1880s. He exhibited with the NSW Academy of Arts, the Agricultural Society of NSW and the Art Society of NSW.
The Italianate villa Bomera was designed by surveyor and architect John Frederick Hilly and built in 1856 for colo...
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Call Numbers
V/317
Record Identifier
nV2Ww6En
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nV2Ww6En
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Reference code
1011232
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