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Site of new university, 1854 / probably by James Glen Wilson, R.N.
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Site of new university, 1854 / probably by James Glen Wilson, R.N.
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Site of new university, 1854 / probably by James Glen Wilson, R.N.
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Site of new university, 1854 / probably by James Glen Wilson, R.N.
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This view is taken from the site of Sydney University where the buildings stand, with Lake Northam in foreground, looking east.
It shows, left to right, the spire of St James Church, the first St Mary's Cathedral, the old Tollhouse, Christ Church, Cooper's Mills, Benevolent Asylum, St Benedict's Church, Tooth's Brewery, Victoria Barracks, Sh...
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Full title
Site of new university, 1854 / probably by James Glen Wilson, R.N.
Variant title
Titled `Panorama of Sydney in 1854' in the Sydney Mail, 14 January 1888, pp. 81-82
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General note
Transferred from V1/c.1855/1
Digital order no:a1528379
Signature / Inscriptions
Titled, lower left; `R.N.', lower left
Attributions / Conjectures
Attributed to James Glen Wilson in the Sydney Mail, 14 January, 1888, pp 81-82
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Administrative / Biographical history
James Glen Wilson was an Irish artist and photographer commissioned into the Royal Navy for the survey voyages of HMS Herald, recording discoveries in the Pacific. This image would have been made during the Herald's second visit to Sydney from 1 January - 27 May 1854.
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V/177
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nZNvq8jn
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825560