Panorama of Hyde Park

JOHN RAE (1813-1900)

Panorama of Hyde Park

watercolour on photographic base on paper laid down on stretched linen
21.0 x 144.5 cm (image), 32.0 x 157.0 cm (sheet)
dated upper centre: 1842
inscribed lower centre: HYDE PARK/ Drawn with Camera by John Rae Town Clerk
inscribed upper left: Supreme Court/ and Watch House, St. James Anglican Church, General Hospital/ (now Mint), Hyde Park Barracks
inscribed upper centre: Campanile, Seminary, St. Mary's R.C. Cathedral, Markers Mill, Gerard's Mill, Victoria Terrace/ John Alexander, Colonel Mundy, Judge Dickinson/ Craigend Mill
inscribed upper right: The Museum, Darlinghurst Jail, Sydney College/ (now Grammar School), Hyde Park Terrace, Lyons Terrace
inscribed centre right: Prosper De Mestre/ Liverpool St.
inscribed lower right: King/ The Flying Pieman

Provenance:
G.E. Friend, Sydney (label attached verso)
Sam Whitney, Sydney
John Williams, 28 August 2011, lot A28
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:
The Royal Australian Historical Society, Sydney

Related Works:
Supreme Court and St James Church, from Elizabeth Street, 1842, watercolour, 25.0 x 33.5 cm, Mitchell and Dixson Collections, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Hyde Park, St James Parsonage Dispensary, afterwards the Mint, and Emigration Barracks, 1842, watercolour, 26.0 x 34.5 cm, Mitchell and Dixson Collections, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Hyde Park, St Mary's Cathedral and Belfry, 1842, watercolour, 26.5 x 34.5 cm, Mitchell and Dixson Collections, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Hyde Park, windmills, Woolloomooloo, Darlinghurst Gaol, Museum, Sir E. Deas Thomson's house, 1842, watercolour, 26.0 x 33.0 cm, Mitchell and Dixson Collections, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Hyde Park, Museum, Darlinghurst Gaol, Sydney Grammar School, Burdekin's and Lyons' Terraces, 1842, watercolour, 26.0 x 34.0 cm, Mitchell and Dixson Collections, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Junction of Elizabeth & Liverpool Sts, Hyde Park, Burdekin's Terrace, Lyons' Terrace, outlet of Busby's Bore, 1842, watercolour, 26.0 x 34.5 cm, Mitchell and Dixson Collections, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney

Estimate: $60000 - 80000