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This photo must have been taken from the tower at Government House.

Thanks for posting these Garden Palace photos which I had not come across before. It was a fascinating building with a wonderful history.

The Garden Palace Fire Gallery is well worth a look, but I tried searches of Photo Investigator and it produced almost nothing. Am I doing something wrong?

beachcomber australia These photos aren't on Photo Investigator, yet. They are part of NRS 4481 which we have been uploading; it is a very large collection and they will be added eventually :)

In the meantime there are some photos of the Palace Gardens here and here and here.

The Garden Palace Fire Gallery has more photos plus an account of the fire by the night watchman. It's incredible to think that this massive building burned down in about 40 minutes.

AB

Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection Thank you. Looking forward to seeing the collection.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historical Gardens, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

See more information about the subject in this photograph in comments here: www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3230390000/

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/

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historical Gardens, and we'd love to have this added to the group!