Etching
Maker & role
Sydney Ure Smith (b.1887, d.1949), Etcher
Production date
1916
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Object detail
Title
Old Convict Barracks
Production place
Collection
Measurements
plate mark, H: 17 x W: 17.5cm (H: 170 x W: 175mm); H: 16 x W: 17.5cm (H: 160 x W: 175mm)
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Signature & marks
lower left beneath image in pencil: 'No 32/ 50 proofs' (Editioned state: no 32 / 50 proofs)
title centre below image in pencil 'Old Convict Barracks'
signed lower right in pencil 'Sydney Ure Smith'
title centre below image in pencil 'Old Convict Barracks'
signed lower right in pencil 'Sydney Ure Smith'
Credit line
Purchase, 1997
Hyde Park Barracks Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Hyde Park Barracks Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Old Convict Barracks
Description
Etching of the Hyde Park Barracks titled "Old Convict Barracks" edition 32 of 50 (32/50). View from west with figures in foreground. Signed by the artist Sydney Ure Smith (1887-1949).
The description of this etching given in the 1920 'Catalogue of the etchings of Sydney Ure Smith' records that "this fine example of Greenway's architecture, built in 1817, when Macquarie was Governor" was etched in 1916, in an edition of 50 prints, issued in two states. The first state had a long foreground and numbered 14 prints. In the second state, of which this is an example, the plate was cut down and 36 prints were issued.
Published as Plate 1 in The etchings of Sydney Ure Smith: introduction by Hal Missingham ; with an article on etching processes by Sir Lionel Lindsay Ure Smith Miniature Series, 6 (1950): "Plate 1. Old Convict Barracks, etched 1916. Designed by the convict architect, Francis Greenway, for Governor Macquarie this is one of the most beautifully proportioned buildings in Sydney. It was built as a convict depot, all convicts upon arrival being sent there to be assigned to the free inhabitants as servants."
Published on p.9 in The etchings of Sydney Ure Smith ... introduction by Bertram Stevens, Sydney, Art in Australia [1948]
The description of this etching given in the 1920 'Catalogue of the etchings of Sydney Ure Smith' records that "this fine example of Greenway's architecture, built in 1817, when Macquarie was Governor" was etched in 1916, in an edition of 50 prints, issued in two states. The first state had a long foreground and numbered 14 prints. In the second state, of which this is an example, the plate was cut down and 36 prints were issued.
Published as Plate 1 in The etchings of Sydney Ure Smith: introduction by Hal Missingham ; with an article on etching processes by Sir Lionel Lindsay Ure Smith Miniature Series, 6 (1950): "Plate 1. Old Convict Barracks, etched 1916. Designed by the convict architect, Francis Greenway, for Governor Macquarie this is one of the most beautifully proportioned buildings in Sydney. It was built as a convict depot, all convicts upon arrival being sent there to be assigned to the free inhabitants as servants."
Published on p.9 in The etchings of Sydney Ure Smith ... introduction by Bertram Stevens, Sydney, Art in Australia [1948]
Accession number
HPB97/10
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