Full title: Roof tops, Macleay Street, Sydney, 1942 / watercolour by Sydney Ure Smith

Author/creator: Smith, Sydney Ure, 1887-1949.

Date: 1942.

Call Numbers: V1A/Pot P/3

Record Identifier: nV2qR2Qn

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Formats: Pictures, Watercolours

Contents: Drawings - on sheet 29.2 x 36.7 cm. image 22.4 x 31.7 cm. - 1 watercolour drawing with pencil underdrawing

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Notes: This view over the roof tops of Macleay Street towards the city gives an idea of how Darlinghurst had changed from a spacious haven for the wealthy to a crowded, high-rise, inner city suburb by the 1940s. Reference: Villas of Darlinghurst exhibition catalogue / State Library of New South Wales. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2002. "re this picture: in `Society of Artists', 1942 book, page 69: of Sydney Ure Smith's Water Colour Drawing of `Macleay St. Potts Point', Sydney. Described as `a particularly interesting piece of work' in which a difficult perspective problem was most successfully solved" ... information from back of old mount Digital order no:a140005

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MMS ID: 110318471