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Streetscene ca. 1963 [Cambridge Street and Cumberland Place Steps, The Rocks, Sydney] / Roland Wakelin
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Title:
Streetscene around 1963 [Cambridge Street and Cumberland Place Steps, The Rocks, Sydney] / Roland Wakelin
Creator:
Wakelin, Roland Shakespeare, 1887-1971
Date:
[c1963]
Format:
1 painting : oil on board ; 46.5 x 53 cm.
Inscription:
Signed 'R. Wakelin' lower right.
Subject:
Cambridge Street (The Rocks, N.S.W.)
Cumberland Place Steps (The Rocks, N.S.W,)
Susannah Place (The Rocks, N.S.W.)
Baker's Terrace (The Rocks, N.S.W.)
Cumberland Place (The Rocks, N.S.W.)
terrace houses
street scenes
backyards
doorsteps
Description:
The street scene depicted here (with some artistic licence) centres on Cumberland Place Steps in The Rocks, Sydney, with Cambridge Street in the foreground and showing the back of houses fronting Gloucester Street. To the left of the steps is the back of a building called Baker's Terrace and to the right is the back of no 64 Susannah Place, one of a terrace of 4 houses, with a corner shop, that now forms the Historic Houses Trust's Susannah Place Museum.
The painting has been dated to ca.1963 from its similarity to another view of the same locality by Wakelin dated 1963. This second painting was sold at auction by Christie's in Melbourne in April 2006 under the erroneous attributed title "Paddington".
Provenance:
Bonhams & Goodman 'Australian, International and Aboriginal Art' auction, 11 December 2006 lot 132.
Published in:
'Susannah Place streetscene' in Insites Winter 2007, issue no.51, p.10.
Source:
Susannah Place ; HHT2006/9
Rights:
(c) Estate of the artist
Material Type:
Picture
Record number:
31096
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