BSR VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS

After spending a night at Jenolan Caves, Ashby and the other delegates waited at Hartley village for the charabancs to ferry them back along Berghofer's Pass to Mt. Victoria. At that stunning location, rimmed by the majestic Blue Mountains, he snapped this photograph of the isolated hamlet with a small white structure at its centre – the Hartley Courthouse (c. 1837). Mortimer Lewis, a leading proponent of the classical revival style in Australia, had designed the sandstone building. Ashby would have immediately recognised certain architectural design elements, with its entrance crowned by a triangular pediment (just like that of the BSR) supported by two round columns. 
This photograph was among twenty-four images made into glass slides for a lantern lecture on his Australian sojourn.

Photograph by Thomas Ashby, BSR, Thomas Ashby Collection
Hartley Village, New South Wales, Australia, TA-XLVI.085