• Title
  Item 6: Collection of sketches owned by Louisa Calvert (nee Atkinson), 1855-1872
• Call number
  PXA 4501
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1855-1872
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs
• Reference code
  80718
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - sizes vary - 18 drawings on 16 sheets
  Photographs - 1 albumen photoprint
  
• Scope and Content
  The volume is a compilation of sketches and photographs, some of which are by Louisa Atkinson.
  
  LOUISA ATKINSON
  Louisa Aktinson's drawings consist of 5 specimen plates of natural history illustrations; 1 drawing of Fairy Lake, Mount Kiera; 1 watercolour of Five Islands, Illawarra; 2 ink & wash drawings of Kurrajong (identified by donor, Miss Janet Cosh); a panoramic ink drawing on 2 sheets of the mountain ranges about Singleton; and 4 ink sketches of Liverpool Hospital, The eclipse March 26th 1857, Sophienburg and Liverpool [railway] Terminus
  
  MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
  Sydney Harbour / initialled "D.J.V."
  residence of R. Futter in Lumley
  Argyle / "H.R."
  "Western view of Mt Kosiusco [Kosciusko] from Wilaragang, Hume River in June 1839". Albumen photoprint of an 1891 oil painting of P.G. King Esqr., taken by Clarington Stewart at request of Mr F.R. Wilshire, Berrima, February 1891
  Allan Cunningham - portrait
• 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
  
  (Reference : Calvert, C.L. - Correspondence, etc. v.6)
  
  Microfilm copy available at CY 1938, frames 1 - 43
  Digital order no:Album ID : 866940
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Many of the drawings are annotated
  
  Title written on back of photograph
• Subject
  Cunningham, Allan, 1791-1839
  
• Topic
  hospitals
  natural history illustrations
  railway stations
  solar eclipses
  
• Place
  Illawarra (N.S.W.)
  Kosciuszko, Mount (N.S.W.)
  Kurrajong (N.S.W.)
  Liverpool (N.S.W.)
  Singleton (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The work of art - Australian women writers and artists
  Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1138396

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