Watercolour on photographic base on paper laid down on stretched linen, dated upper centre: 1842, inscribed lower centre: Hyde Park / Drawn with Camera by John Rae Town Clerk, inscribed upper left: Supreme Court/ and Watch House, St. James Anglican Church, General Hospital/ (now Mint), Hyde Park Barracks, inscribed upper centre: Campanile, Seminary, St. Mary's R.C. Cathedral, Markers Mill, Gerard's Mill, Victoria Terrace/ John Alexander, Colonel Mundy, Judge Dickinson/ Craigend Mill, inscribed upper right: The Museum, Darlinghurst Jail, Sydney College/ (now Grammar School), Hyde Park Terrace, Lyons Terrace, inscribed centre right: Prosper De Mestre/ Liverpool St., inscribed lower right: King/ The Flying Pieman, 21 x 144.5 cm