georgian

Also known as Bance or Bunce island, I think? A slave market?

How charming. Your photo is very inspiring. I shall
be delighted if you would join us.
I would be honored if you would add this fantastic image to:
The Regency Society for Morals & Manners

She had such lovely handwiriting. But I guess she exercised(?) it a bit. :) -- Seen in your Historic Documents set. (?)

I'd venture to guess that everyone with good handwriting exercised it.

Read more about this image on the John Oxley Library blog blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2013/06/25/queensland-events-1913/

Completed in 1829, the Commissariat Store demonstrates the evolution of European settlement in Queensland, being one of only two buildings surviving from the Moreton Bay penal colony, has become a government store when a free settlement was established until the 1960s and accommodating a range of other government uses, including serving as an overflow point for immigrants from the 1850s until 1887 when the Yungaba depot opened (Yungaba Immigration Centre). Changes to the fabric and orientation of the building over that time reflect the development of Brisbane. The adjacent area of land, now known as Miller Park, has been an open space since the earliest European settlement and continues to provide a pedestrian thoroughfare linking the river and city. As a key penal colony structure, the Commissariat Store is a very rare survivor in Queensland and, is one of only eight convict-built commissariat buildings remaining in Australia, at a national level. The stone retaining walls that remain around the store and that fronting Queens Wharf Road along part of Miller Park are the only examples remaining in Queensland that were built by convicts. All these structures provide rare evidence of the building methods, skills, and materials available at that time. This place is important in retaining the principal characteristics of a penal-era Commissariat Store that adapted to free settlement and transformation into a Government Store, through its simple form, robust construction, Georgian and Regency architectural influences - all of which help impart to the building a sense of the authority it represented - and its location between the river (from where goods and immigrants arrived) and the center of the penal and later free settlement. The Commissariat Store, the three retaining walls that carve its site out of the William Street ridge and the remaining section of wall on Queens Wharf Road are of great aesthetic value as landmarks, seen from William Street and from the Brisbane River. The place is an integral part of the most prominent and cohesive group of government buildings in Queensland, which includes the: former Treasury Building (Treasury Building, Brisbane), former State Library (Old State Library), former Land Administration Building (Land Administration Building), Queens Gardens (Queens Gardens, Brisbane), and the former Government Printing Office (Government Printing Office. The Commissariat Store has a special association with Commandant Patrick Logan, as one of the few remaining components of his penal-era building program, which made a major contribution to the development of the colony and state of Queensland.[1] The building also has an enduring association with the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, its occupant since 1976 which has adopted the building's riverside elevation as the dominant feature of its logo. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissariat_Store,_Brisbane