Item 08: Drawing of Clare House, Killarney, New South Wales, 1874
Item 08: Drawing of Clare House, Killarney, New South Wales, 1874
About this item
Full title
Date
1874
Call Numbers
SV/182
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - image 13.0 x 18.4 cm, on sheet (folded at edges) 20.0 x 25.1 cm - pencil and watercolour
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
A drawing of Clare House showing the front view of the house, an outbuilding behind at left, and fence and surrounding gardens.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 08: Drawing of Clare House, Killarney, New South Wales, 1874
Notes
General note
Digital order no:a4629001
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed and dated in image at lower left 'F [in reverse] VD. 29.3.74'
Inscribed in ink on verso 'Clare House, Killarney / in memory of happy days spent there'
Date note
Dated in pencil below image at left '29.3.1874'
Contextual Information
Source
Acquired from a branch of the Scarvell family, June 2010
Administrative / Biographical history
Clare House (also known as Killarney) in Oakville, N.S.W., was built for Captain John Scarvell and his family in the late 1820s and 1830s. The first part of the house may have been built for Andrew Thompson before 1817. The building was later used as an inn until 1911. Killarney Inn was popular with racegoers from a nearby course. In the 1980s...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SV/182
Record Identifier
npAdPQ61
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/npAdPQ61
Other Identifiers
Reference code
910078
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