• Title
  Harp Hotel, Wollongong, 1918 / John Campbell
• Creator
  John Campbell, 1855-1924
• Call number
  DG 369
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1918
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  836591
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 16 1/8 x 11 7/8 in.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The Harp Hotel Wollongong was run by William Woods and his wife Margaret Jane Kenna from 1913 to 1919. They were assisted by some of their twelve children, their eldest son, Thomas James (known as Dick), was registered as the proprietor of the hotel. In the painting the girl with dark hair on the veranda is thought to be their daughter, Agnes, or one of her sisters.
  
  In 1919 the family relocated to the Terminus Hotel in Harris Street, Pyrmont, their son, Phillip, was licensee. In 1929 the family eventually settled in Wareemba Street, Five Dock and the painting of the Harp Hotel was proudly displayed in the breakfast room for thirty five years, until it was sold to the Mitchell Library in 1964.
  
  Reference:
  Information posted to the SLNSW eRecords Project blog by Leonie Low, 30 November 2010
  
  Western Australian artist, John Campbell was born in Scotland in 1855. He also travelled and painted pictures of buildings and locations in New South Wales and Queensland. He died in Perth in 1924.
  
  Reference:
  
  John Campbell : 1855-1924 / [text by Janice Baker]. Perth : Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2003.
• Scope and Content
  Lettering on veranda awning reads 'Wood's Harp Hotel'
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project 2008-2009
• General note
  
  "The artist [J. Campbell] was passing through Wollongong at the time and my brother who was the Licensee of the Hotel at the time made accommodation available for the artist in return for painting the picture." -- John Woods, August 1964
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
  Digital order no:a1528492
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Untitled.
  Signed 'J. Campbell. 1918' lower right hand corner.
• Topic
  hotels & taverns
  
• Place
  Wollongong (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  John Campbell, 1855-1924 - Art Gallery of Western Australia
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3270579

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