Title
Entrance, old Colonial Treasury
1916
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Entrance, old Colonial Treasury, Lang St.
Old Colonial Treasury
Doorway Freeman's Journal, Lang St. - Date
- 1916
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, printed in brown-black ink with plate tone on ivory wove paper
- Edition
- 20/30
- Dimensions
- 22.2 x 10.3 cm platemark; 28.3 x 15.3 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, pencil "Sydney Ure Smith/ may 1916".
Signed and dated in plate to print l.r. corner "S. Ure S./ APRIL 1916".- Credit
- Purchased 1916
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 3404
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Sydney Ure Smith
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About
"Erected in 1824 by Mr. Wm. Cox; the first occupant was Sir William Balcombe, the first Colonial Treasurer, who took up his abode and business there in 1824."
Hal Missingham, 'The etchings of Sydney Ure Smith', Ure Smith Pty. Limited, Sydney, 1950
This work was catalogued in two 1920 publications on Ure Smith's etchings as 'Entrance Old Colonial Treasury' and in a 1950 publication as 'Entrance, old Colonial treasury, Lang St'. Different impressions have been inscribed with other titles by the artist, including this impression. All three catalogues were published by Ure Smith's publishing company, Art in Australia.
The 1920 catalogues note: 'This interesting old building was the Colonial Treasury of the early fifties. The lower portion is now used by the 'Freeman's Journal' '
The 1950 catalogue notes: 'Erected in 1824 by Mr Wm. Cox; the first occupant was Sir William Balcombe, the first Colonial Treasurer, who took up his abode and business there in 1824'.
Refs: 'The etchings of Sydney Ure Smith' Art in Australia, Sydney, 1920 plate 27, p.20; 'Catalogue of etchings of Sydney Ure Smith' (Art in Australia), limited edition printed by hand at Smith & Julius Art Studios, Sydney 1920 plate 27, p.22; 'The etchings of Sydney Ure Smith' Ure Smith miniature series, Sydney 1950 plate 10
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Hal Missingham and Lionel Lindsay, The etchings of Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney, 1950, (illus.). plate no. 10; titled 'Entrance, Old Colonial Treasury, Lang St.'
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