Caroline Simpson Collection

View of Hyde Park looking towards the Supreme Court, St James' Church, Sydney Hospital and the Hyde Park Barracks, 1840s / artist unknown

[c1844]

1 watercolour over traces of pencil : 13.5 x 26 cm.

Untitled, unsigned.

Macquarie Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Hyde Park (Sydney, N.S.W.)
historic buildings
convict barracks
Sydney Hospital (Sydney, N.S.W.)
St James' Church (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Old Supreme Court (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Hyde Park Barracks (Sydney, N.S.W.)

The perspective of this drawing looks northward from a point in Hyde Park represented more or less by an imaginary line drawn east from Market Street to intersect with the continuation of Macquarie Street through the park, showing the most extensive surviving group of colonial buildings associated with the period of Governor Lachlan Macquarie: St James' Church in the centre (built 1819-1824); the old Supreme Court to the left of the church (built 1821-1828); Hyde Park Barracks on the right, enclosed by a domed wall on all sides (built 1817-1819); and the three-wing General Hospital in Macquarie Street (built 1811-1816).
The Hyde Park Barracks, St James' Church and the old Supreme Court were designed by convict architect Francis Greenway. The two-story building on the near left-hand side of the image is the St James' School, also designed by Francis Greenway.
A social game of cricket is lightly sketched in the centre of the image.
College Street and St Mary's Cathedral are just outside the frame on the right of the image.

Sotheby's auction 'Topographical Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings', 20 October 1993, London, lot 95; Caroline Simpson Collection, Clydebank (1994-2003).

Hyde Park Barracks ; HPB2005/1

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