Object Number: K4349a

Collection: Fine Art

Object Name: drawing/watercolour

Title: The Mansion House, Clifton

Artist: PALMER, Hannah Emma

Description: a colour drawing on paper, showing: a view of the conservatory and part of the Mansion House at Clifton Down, Bristol, as seen from near the junction of Clifton Down, Cecil Road and Canynge Road; two female figures, probably a mother and child, look at the house, while a gardener mows the grass under a nearby tree; just beyond the tree are some dwellings and the top of the pre-WWII spire of All Saints Church; this is the third and current Mansion House, and was designed by George and Henry Godwin in 1867 as a family home for the philanthropist and alderman Thomas Proctor; it was given by Proctor to the City of Bristol on 1st May, 1874 for use as the Mayor’s official residence; the original Mansion House in Queen Square was destroyed in the Bristol riots of 1831, and its replacement in Great George Street was closed on economic grounds in 1835