Argyle Cut, The Rocks, Sydney, circa 1872.

Large format albumen print photograph, 230 x 280 mm; captioned in negative l.r. ‘Argyle Cut’; a beautifully crisp print in fine condition, unmounted.

From the DAAO:

‘Under the direction of Colonial Architect James Barnet, Pickering was commissioned by the New South Wales government in January 1871 to prepare “a number of photographic views of Sydney and its suburbs” for the forthcoming London International Exhibition. The government printer published 166 of the resulting photographs in a large folio volume, Photographs of Public and Other Buildings, &c. Taken by Authority of the Government of New South Wales, at the Request of the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Sydney 1872).’