Plan Of Messrs Hinton & See’s Property, Albion Wharf, Darling Harbour, City Of Sydney
1888. Ink with watercolour on paper, titled in ink upper centre, 54 x 27.5cm. Ink stains to lower portion, old folds. Annotations include “Dawson and Dawson Lic’d Surveyors, 88 Pitt Street, 14/9/88.” Also shows part of Sussex St, Sydney. Provenance: Daniel Cooper estate. Daniel Cooper (1785–1853) was a pardoned convict who amassed a fortune in the 1820s through real estate and various business interests including whaling, sealing, shipping, and the export of Australian wool, mostly through the trading firm known as Cooper and Levey’s. The firm acquired John Piper’s estate when it was sold, comprising over 1100 acres at Woollahra and Rose Bay; Cooper also owned parts of Liverpool. He later became involved in the banking business, becoming a governor of the Bank of NSW in 1828. Ref: ADB.
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