Picture perfect - Harold Cazneaux

Photographer Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953) lived in Roseville and was captivated with the elegance of the architect-designed houses and picturesque gardens of the North Shore. He photographed many of the local houses and gardens in his distinctive pictorialist style. One home which features in the collection of images below is Eryldene, Gordon. Eryldene was designed by William Hardy Wilson for Professor E.G. Waterhouse. Although Waterhouse's professional field was modern languages, his hobby was gardening and he specialised in the propagation of camellias in his garden at Eryldene.

Many of these photographs were reproduced in Domestic architecture in Australia, edited by Sydney Ure Smith and Bertram Stevens in collaboration with W. Hardy Wilson. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1919, ML Q728/7A2.

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