• Title
  Item 5: Sketchbook of miscellaneous drawings, ca. 1855-1872 / Louisa Calvert (nee Atkinson)
• Call number
  PXA 4500
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1855-1872
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  80710
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 1937, frames 99-145
  
• Physical Description
  1 sketchbook (84 pages) - 27.7 x 19.2 x 1.3 cm. - quarter bound on marbled boards, and with marbled edges, pencil drawings, watercolour drawings, pen & ink drawings, monochrome wash drawings
  
• Scope and Content
  Sketchbook comprises bird drawings, botanical studies, animal studies, rough pencil drawings of farm houses (f.24 is possibly family home, Oldbury), monochrome wash and pen and ink drawings of glens and gullies, and people travelling through them.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 982613
  A number of pages had been cut from the sketchbook when received by the Library.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Many of the drawings are annotated
• Subject
  Birds--Pictorial works.
  Ornithological illustration.
  
• Topic
  botanical illustrations
  exploration
  natural history illustrations
  sketchbooks
  zoological illustrations
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1118643

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