Photograph of St Paul's College comprising two storey's and built in the gothic style and featuring one large Decorated tracery window of a chapel or hall (to the right of the centre). Photographed from across an enclosed lawn.

Situated within the University of Sydney and founded in 1856, St Paul's College is a residential college and is the oldest University College in Australia. There is a very similar photograph taken of the College from the same angle by the 'Star Photo Company'; it is not certain if this photograph was also taken by this company.  

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.