Item 02: Elizabeth Douglass scrapbook, ca.1855-ca.1890

PXD 610

item

ca.1855-ca.1890

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Ephemera

52140

Albums - size of contents varies : scrapbook measures 56.5 x 38.5 cm - 1 scrapbook with 62 leaves containing prints, albumen photoprints, watercolour drawings, pencil scratchboard drawings, certificates, clippings, ephemera, sentiment cards, novelty works and 1 oil Paintings on paper - 11 loose items including an albumen photoprint, watercolour drawings and prints

Scrapbook comprises mainly mid- to late nineteenth century European produced images of European portraits and landscapes. Includes early christmas cards.
A number of items have Australian content: lithographed certificate awarded to Elizabeth Douglass for her arrangement of skeleton leaves and flowers from Geelong Mechanics School of Arts Industrial Exhibition 1862 (f.23) -- George Alexander Gilbert, "To the memory of Miss Anne Drysdale...", lithograph, 1856 (f.60) -- George Alexander Gilbert, "To the memory of Miss Anne Drysdale...", lithograph, 1856 (f.61) -- Artist unknown, "In memory of Alfred Byerley Douglass...", pencil and watercolour, undated (f.62) -- Albumen photograph of model of Victoria, printed by Crown Lands Office Melbourne, 1868 (endpaper) -- Joseph Turner "[Photograph of moon 4th April 1873-Great Melbourne Telescope]", albumen photoprint, 1873 (loose in volume).

PXD 610 (A)
Engraved calling card inscribed ‘Mrs Alfred Douglass/Corio Villa’ is fixed onto inside front cover.
Card measures 6 x 9.1 cm.
f.l Blank when received.
f.2 Five engravings of European sculpture (including bust of Queen Victoria).
f.3 Two European portrait engravings.
f.4 Seven engravings (including one medal engraving) of European sculpture.
f.5 Eleven landscape prints, including two Baxter prints of the Great Exhibition, London, 1851
Reference:
The price guide to Baxter prints / by A. Ball and M. Martin.
Woodbridge, Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club, 1983. p.129
f.6 Seventeen engravings of European views and genre paintings.
f.7 Eleven engravings of European views.
f.8 Two engravings of European sculpture.
f.9 Five engravings of European views.
f.10 Fifteen European engravings and lithographs of female figures, views etc, mostly coloured.
f.11 Eight engravings of European scenes; one pencil drawing, on an oval tinted scraperboard, of Tintern Abbey
21.4 cm diametre.
f.12 Fourteen engravings of European scenes; two figure engravings.
f.13 Eleven engravings of European scenes.
f.14 Ten engravings of European scenes
(one item missing when album received).
f.15 Eight portrait engravings, including a portrait of Amy Robsent and a medal engraving of Sir Walter Scott.
A watercolour on ivory copy of Amy Robsent, which was kept with the album, is at MIN 329
f.16 Four engravings and one lithograph of European scenes.
f.17 Six animal engravings and one coaching engraving.
f.18 Twelve engravings of European views and one subject engraving.
f.19 Two engravings of European views ; six portrait engravings; one subject engraving.
f.20 Six engravings of European views ; one portrait engraving.
f.20b Newspaper cutting, chiefly of European and American subjects.
f.21 Newspaper cuttings, including two small cuttings, lower left, which refer to the Douglass family.
f.22 Three engravings of European views.
f.23 One lithographed certificate presented to Mrs Alfred Douglass for her arrangement of skeleton leaves and flowers, which she exhibited at the Geelong Mechanics Institute Industrial Exhibition of 1862.
Certificate, which has been trimmed, measures 26.4 x 21.3 cm. To each side, and beneath, certificate are two coloured lithograph columns, the left topped by a kangaroo and the right an emu. Beneath the two columns is an albumen photograph, measuring 7.1 x 6.8 cm, of a flower arrangement.
f.24 One engraving of animal painting. Two items missing when album received.
f.25 Newspaper cuttings.
f.25b Newspaper cuttings, dealing mainly with European Royal Families.
f.26 Blank when received.
f.27 One engraving of a European scene; two portrait engravings; one lithograph of European scene.
f.28 One portrait engraving; one engraving of church interior; one subject engraving, one hand-coloured lithograph on round tinted board of a coaching scene.
f.28b Newspaper cuttings, mainly about the attempted assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh in Sydney in
1868.
f.29 Newspaper cuttings, mainly about the British Royal family.
f.30 Seven engravings of European scenes and three portrait engravings.
f.30b Newspaper cuttings, mainly European.
f.31 Seven engravings of European scenes, seven engravings of genre paintings.
f.32 Four engravings of near-eastern and Indian scenes; four embossed coloured engravings of birds.
f.33 Seven engravings and one lithograph of European scenes; two subject engravings; eight loose newspaper cuttings.
f.34 Blank when received.
f.35 Two engravings of European views; two subject engravings.
f.36 Five coloured lithographs; two coloured engraving of female figures.
f.37 Seven engravings of landscape views; two engravings of female figures; four subject engravings.
f.38 Sixteen printed bill heads from European hotels; one lithographed panorama of the Rhine.
f.39 One coloured lithograph of female figures.
f.39b One newspaper cutting from the Illustrated London News 30 March 1878; one stevengraph of a hunting scene.
Between f.39 & f.40 Tipped in is one newspaper cutting from Illustrated London News 30 March 1878.
f.40 Undated newspaper cuttings.
f.40b Sixteen colour printed undated late nineteenth century greeting cards.
f.41 Blank when received.
f.41b Thirteen colour printed undated late nineteenth century greeting cards.
f.42 Two engravings of European scenes; one engraving of a female figure; one varnished oil paint sketch on paper of an unidentified scene, measuring 14.3 x 20.1cm.
Painting is indistinctly signed at lower left.
f.43 Eight engravings of European scenes; four subject engravings.
f.44 Four engravings of European scenes.
f.45 Two engravings of European scenes; one item missing when album received.
f.46 Five engravings of European scenes.
f.47 Seven engravings of European scenes; one subject engraving.
f.48 One engravings of European scene; one engravings of horses; one subject engraving.
f.49 Two colour printed lithographs of females figures.
f.50 Nine engravings of European scenes.
f.51 Blank when album received.
f.52 One engraving of sea scene; one engraving of animals; one portrait engraving; two floral colour lithographs.
f.53 Three hand-coloured tinted lithographs of European scenes.
f.54 Eighteen engravings of European scenes.
f.55 One engraving of European scene; two engravings of sculptures; one pencil drawing of an unidentified scene on tinted scraperboard.
f.56 Two portrait wood-engravings of William John Wills and Robert O’Hara Burke; seven bill heads from British hotels.
f.57 Three engravings, one coloured, of European scenes.
f.58 Two tinted lithographs of European scenes; one chromolithograph of flowers.
f.59 Four Engravings of European scenes; four portrait engravings, one being of Captain Cook.
f.60 GILBERT, GEORGE ALEXANDER
TO THE MEMORY OF / MISS ANNE DRYSDALE / WHO EXCHANGED MORTALITY FOR LIFE ON THE 11TH DAY OF MAY 1853
Lithographed at lower right ‘Printed by G. Rowney & Co. London.’1856.
Tinted lithograph. 33.4 x 40.2 cm trimmed. Artist and date from inscription lithographed lower centre of print ‘From a Drawing taken on the Spot by G.A. Gilbert, Victoria (Australia Felix) 1856.’ Titled from inscription lithographed beneath image.
f.61 GILBERT, GEORGE ALEXANDER
TO THE MEMORY OF / MISS ANNE DRYSDALE / WHO EXCHANGED MORTALITY FOR LIFE ON THE 11TH DAY OF MAY 1853
Lithographed at lower right ‘Printed by G. Rowney & Co. London.’1856.
Tinted lithograph. 44.2 x 28.2 cm trimmed.
Artist and date from comparison with f.60 and from trimmed inscription lithographed lower centre of print ‘[ ] a Drawing taken on the Spot by G.A. Gilbert, Victoria (Australia Felix) 18[ J.’ Titled from inscription lithographed beneath image.
f.62 ARTIST UNKNOWN
Alfred Byrley Douglass’ tomb
nd. Pencil, watercolour & gouache. Image 12.6 x 9 cm in embossed mount made by De La Run & Co. 22 x 18.7 cm.
Not signed and not dated. Titled from text inscribed
on tomb ‘IN MEMORY / OF / ALFRED BYERLEY DOUGLASS / INFANT SON OF / ALFRED ELIZABETH DOUGLASS / BORN MAY 3
1854. / DIED APRIL 11 1855’.
ALfred Byerley Douglass was the eldest son of Mrs Alfred Douglass, the compiler of this album ML
1608/90.
Endpaper Albumen photograph of a model of Victoria, 36.3 x 52.7 cm. At lower right is printed ‘MODEL OF / VICTORIA / CROWN LANDS OFFICE MELBOURNE / 1868’.

PXD 610 (B)
Contains eleven items, which came loose with the scrapbook.
The majority are prints of European scenes. Some have possibly fallen out of the album.
Two are watercolours - one is of S.Marco’s Square Venice, the other is a portrait of an unidentified girl. Both are probably late nineteenth century.
One is an 1873 albumen photograph of the moon. The image measures 24.6 x 17.4 cm and is laid on a sheet 37.9 x 30.2 cm. A label fixed underneath the photograph reads “Photo: of moon, Great Melbourne Telescope. Date 4th Apl:/73 Moon’s Age. 7. 0 days”. A stamp at lower left reads “Melbourne Observatory No.47”. The photograph was taken by Joseph Turner cf. Joan Kerr ed., The Dictionary of Australian Artists 1770-1870, Oxford University Press, 1992.
Amy Robsart (now MIN 329) was also loose in the album but has been removed for conservation reasons. A former mount has been preserved amongst the loose items.

Contents list of PXD 610: Elizabeth Douglass Scrapbook (PXn 842)

Engraved calling card inscribed "Mrs Alfred Douglass Corio Villa" is fixed on inside front cover of scrapbook.

Dated by types of items in scrapbook.