Pearse, John 1808-1882 :[Views of Wellington ca 1852]. Mrs Simmons' Farm - Wellington.

Pearse, John 1808-1882 :[Views of Wellington ca 1852]. Mrs Simmons' Farm - Wellington.
Date
1852 - 1856
Reference
E-455-f-037-4
Description

A two-storied house in a large cleared section, with a bush-clad hill behind it.

The home of Mrs Jane Symons (nee Morshead), later Mrs J. F. F. Wright. The house was originally built by Judge Halswell and managed by James Symons, then purchased by Symons, who died in 1851. The same house was also depicted by S. C. Brees in the early 1840s (Residence of his Honour Judge Halswell ... No. 61). It stood on Section 28, Ohiro, approximately the modern site of Brooklyn School in Washington Avenue, Brooklyn. See TL3/1/1/2 9 March 1984; see also Ward, L. Early Wellington, p. 283

Other Titles - Symons

Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).

Physical Description: Watercolour, 115 x 172 mm

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856] / Pearse, John, 1808-1882 :[Views of Wellington ca 1852].
Format
1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour, 115 x 172 mm
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