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The porch of Claremont, Rose Bay, ca.1876 / Wilhelm Kembel

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Title:

The porch of Claremont, Rose Bay, around 1876 / Wilhelm Kembel

Creator:

Kembel, Wilhelm.

Date:

[c1876]

Format:

1 albumen photoprint ; sepia toned ; 9.9 x 13.6 cm.

Inscription:

Print pasted down in a Thorne family album.

Subject:

villas
porches
horses
dogs
Claremont (Rose Bay, N.S.W.)
Thorne family.

Description:

The house Claremont in the Sydney suburb of Rose Bay was built in 1851-1852 for Bristol-born Sydney businessman George Thorne (1810-1891) who had migrated to Australia in 1840. He married Elizabeth Ann Bisdee in Hobart in 1842. George Thorne retained ownership of Claremont until early 1879 but the family did not reside in the house continuously. The house was let at various times in the late 1850s, early 1860 and again in late 1869. [ref: SMH 6.2.1858; 11.4.1861; 27.11.1869; 25.1.1879]
An identical copy of this photograph held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, has the photographer's name 'W Kimbel, Piper St. Woollahra' printed below the image. This copy also carries an identification of the people as "Gertrude with Theodore Bisdee Thorne" and identifies the mastiff as 'Venus'.

Provenance:

Estate of Rosalie Ann Watkins, nee Thorne, (1850-1927) of Penrose, Marsden Street Parramatta; Estate of Gertrude Mary Lethbridge Watkins (1874-1962) of Parramatta; Kenneth Stewart, Sydney antiquarian bookseller.

Published in:

Nesta Griffiths in Some houses and people of New South Wales Sydney: Ure Smith, 1949, p.158.

Source:

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ;

Rights:

You may save or print this image for research and study. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact Sydney Living Museums to request permission.

Material Type:

Picture

Record number:

37880