• Title
  Old mill, Gordon St, Paddington, Sydney, 1862 / George Roberts
• Creator
  George Roberts, ca. 1800-1865
• Call number
  V1/Pub/Gov H/9a
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1862
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  447130
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour - 21.4 x 29.6 cm. inside mount - Mounted with First Government House, Sydney, by the same artist
  
• Scope and Content
  Gordon's Post Mill was located at the end of Gordon Street and run by the Gordon family grinding wheat from the early 1830s. It remained a prominent and increasingly anachronistic feature of the local landscape as the surrounding ground was converted to houses, and as wind power was replaced by steam.
  
  Reference:
  Kelly, Max. Paddock full of houses: Paddington 1840-1890. Sydney: Doak Press, 1978
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
• General note
  
  Titled from (library officer's?) inscription on mount.
  Digital order no:a928314
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  ""GR / 1862"" -- signed and dated at lower right
  ""The Mill marks thereabout the site of the RC convent in Gordon St. Paddington. The picture was painted by Mr George Wm Roberts, & is presented to the Mitchell Library by Mrs. Annie Roberts, 2nd Oct. 1928. (The artist was a scene painter of the Old Victoria Theatre, [etc.?], Sydney)"" -- handwritten inscription on label affixed to reverse of mount
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  houses
  labourers
  windmills
  
• Place
  Gordon's Mill (Paddington, N.S.W.)
  Paddington (N.S.W.)
  

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