ashton

So glad you have posted this to Flickr - I have been looking for it here all week, because it is yet another photo which very closely matches a ca.1902 painting by Julian Ashton -



In the news currently due to the Historic Houses Trust exhibition "Painting The Rocks' -
www.hht.net.au/whats_on/exhibitions/exhibitions/painting_...

Apart from the history (this picturesque corner of Millers Point was demolished to make way for Hickson Road), this is a wonderful photo with amazing composition, curves and perspectives. How to make old 'slums' look beautiful . John Degotardi Jnr photographer?

A certain someone, who will remain nameless [ahem], might just have made a special request.

There was another J. Duggan, Butcher in Cumberland Street.

pellethepoet Thanks pellethepoet, pellethesaint !

...wait for two other special requests tomorrow!

I thought this looked vaguely familiar - Julian Ashton "Old houses, Cumberland Street" (AGNSW) - collection.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/results.do?id... ED 14/3/15 updated link - www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/5858/

Good find. Do you know what date the Ashton painting was done? It appears to be after the phtograph, as the major house in the photograph is in ruins or demolished in the painting and the tree near the bend in the road at left is much larger in the painting.

I think the photo was part of the series taken in 1901 after the bubonic plague. So presumably the Ashton painting is soon after demolition. It seems the unnamed photographer and Ashton might have known each other, just as with this photo - www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2844602875/ . I am keeping an eye out for other matches.

There are chooks wandering around in the Ashton painting too.

"Plague" album Vol. V, "295 Nos. 95 and 97 Cumberland-street" Digital Order No. a147295 acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/albumView.aspx?acmsID=413021&... Thumbnail page 4.

I think the houses are in Princes Street (now the Sydney Harbour Bridge southern approach road), Trinity Avenue is marked in the middle, and the street at front with the loitering gentleman is Lower Fort Street.

You're right beachcomberaustralia - the foreground is Lower Fort Street, though a few of the houses do have access from Trinity Avenue - investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/asp/photosearch/photo.asp...

A nice Harold Cazneaux photograph from the AGNSW collection.

Interesting stuff pellethepoet. I see from Google street view that the steps and ramp are still there (why would they go anywhere?!).

I wonder if this was nearby? - Julian Ashton - "Old House, Trinity Lane, Sydney" (1893) AGNSW - www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/3320/