Photograph taken of Bridge Street in Sydney of a neo-classical Italianate building on a street corner with a dome rising behind. In the right of the foreground is a smaller neo-classical building. In the left of the foreground, a child stands on a street corner. In the background on the right stands the Colonial Secretary's Office.

The inscription that accompanies this photograph states that the photograph shows Macquarie Street, so named after the Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie (1762-18224). The photograph in fact shows Bridge Street in Sydney, looking towards Macquarie Street. Macquarie Place stood on the left but is not visible in this photograph. Bridge Street was one of the first streets to be constructed in Sydney.    

This is a photograph from one of the nine albums compiled following Prince Albert Victor (1864-92) and Prince George of Wales' (1865-1936) world tour aboard HMS Bacchante from 1879 to 1882. The photographs were collected by their chaperon and tutor, John Neale Dalton.

The majority of the images in these albums are topographical views and architectural studies, loosely arranged according to the group’s itinerary. They include photographs of artefacts, local people and public figures, as well as portraits of the princes taken during the tour. The attempt to recreate the experience of a journey through such an assortment of images is common to many amateur travelling albums of this period. In 1886, some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced as engravings in the published accounts of the voyage, The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882.