Description
Fine etching by the master print maker John Barclay Godson of the entrance to the old Berrima, gaol.
Godson first exhibited the etching at the 1931 Annual Exhibition of the Australian Painter-Etchers’ Society.
The gaol was built in 1835-9 of local sandstone at a cost of £5,400. Convicted London joiner and carpenter James Gough (1790-1876) who had arrived on the Earl Spencer in 1813 and gained his conditional pardon in 1821, was awarded the construction of the gaol in partnership with John Richards in 1834; much of the construction work was done by convicts
Price in pencil lower left. £3-3-0.
Provenance:
Artists estate.
