royalbotanicgardenssydney

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Tea Rooms at Royal Botanic Gardens

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • Henk van der Eijk said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historical Gardens, and we'd love to have this added to the group! Edit: many thanks!
  • dunedoo said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sydney's older buildings and structures. , and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • Aussie Big Bob said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historic Sydney, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    Thanks for all the invites, it is a great photo!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Interior possibly / likely ...

The fountain, Botanic Gardens, Sydney

from Powerhouse Museum

  • Henk van der Eijk said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historical Gardens, and we'd love to have this added to the group! Thank you very much, also for the other photos!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    See discussion here -
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71107711 - Australian Town & Country Journal, 8th February, 1890...sketch of the fountain here ...with a girl drinking from the chained communal cup...see pic No. 6 (1st page of link, pic bottom rhs)... The T&CJ's artist was E.M. (Edward Merwin) Grosse (1857–1920)... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16878723 - SMH, 8th December, 1920...Grosse's brief SMH obit gives some interesting bio details...Grosse evidently specialised in zoological drawings...I gather Grosse was originally from the US...

The lake, Botanical Gardens

from Powerhouse Museum

  • Henk van der Eijk said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historical Gardens, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • BobMeade said:
    See more information about the subject in this photograph in comments here: www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3230390000/
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71185367/5231788 - the Australian Town & Country Journal, 13th December, 1890...sketch + description... '...the statue of Venus Anadyomene rising out of the waves. She is here, however, in a pond, and a very pretty pond too, containing one or two miniature islands, clothed with weeping willows and fringed with green borders, ferns, palms, and flower beds. The goddess is standing on a scallop shell, supported on the shoulders of two cupids, who, seated astride of a couple of dolphins, are lustily blowing conch shells. The pedestal of the statue is about 3ft high out of the water; so the lady, although ocean borne, has rather a dry time of it, except when it rains.' I haven't managed to establish the details for this statue (acquisition date, sculptor, etc)...I gather it was a copy of the ?1st century Roman original...the Sydney Botanic Gardens statue evidently deteriorated and was replaced in ? 1990 by a bronze copy. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/70615516 - Australian Town & Country Journal, 6th April, 1878...no Venus... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/64036057 - Illustrated Sydney News, 14th February, 1885...'The Middle Pond, Botanic Gardens'...Venus appears here... Nice coloured post card pic www.flickr.com/photos/patopostcards/2170398675/