Photograph of facade of Italian Renaissance style Post Office with five bays, three storeys: upper two supported by arcade; whole surmounted by balustrade and clock with three faces. On corner of George and Pitt Streets.

Both Prince's Albert Victor and George expressed an admiration for the architectural grandeur of the General Post Office building during their stay in Sydney. In the written account of the voyage of HMS Bacchante, the Prince's remarked on the 'grey and red polished granite' that 'shows up well against the sandstone.' Quotation from The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante 1879-1882 (1886).

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.