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Watercolour of the Sydney Benevolent Asylum, by Frederick Garling

Sydney’s Benevolent Asylum was opened in 1821 and took in in the poor, destitute, disabled and elderly.

This artwork was probably painted in the 1840s or 1850s.

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Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, FL3170446

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