This view of Vaucluse House is from the southwest, looking into the south-western corner of the bedroom wing of the main house, the western flank of the kitchen wing and the service yard. It was shown in an exhibition at the Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, in September 1938 and described by a critic for the Sydney Morning Herald as "particularly striking, because it shows the artist in a new light". The reviewer went on to explain: "Lately, Mr Dundas's colour schemes have usually been a trifle muddy and disturbing. But in the new offering, which is a product of the 1938 season, he has attained a singularly engaging freshness. The drawing of the old stone building, seen through a complex screen of interlacing tree-trunks and branches, is masterly, both in its strength of line and in its feeling for form, and the pale colour enriches, while it does not distract attention from, that black and white foundation." [SMH 21 September 1938 p.11]
Exhibited in 'Watercolours, works by 20 Artists' Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, September 1938.
