• Title
  Series 2: Macleay family pictorial works, 1825-1886
• Call number
  PXA 707
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1825-1886
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Prints
• Reference code
  134285
• Physical Description
  Drawings
  Prints
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Agion carnulatum [dragonfly] Drury. [Handcol. engraving]. London ... by E. Donovan & Messrs Simpkin & Marshall, April 1, 1825
  2. [Colonial Secretary's house, Bridge Street, Sydney, ca. 1826-1830] / Frances (Fanny) Leonora Macleay. Pencil on pink card, with blind-embossed border and maker's name 'Dobbs' upper centre, 7.6 x 11.5 cm. Inscribed on reverse "Pray write soon - very soon, a long letter to your very affec[tion]ate Fanny Leonora McLeay". Illustrated in Taste and science: the women of the Macleay family, 1790-1859 / Elizabeth Elliott. Glebe, NSW: Historic Houses Trust of NSW, 1988, p. 41. Location number : Mitchell Library 994.4102/5; Strength of spirit : pioneering women of achievement ... / Susanna De Vries-Evans. Alexandria, NSW: Millenium Books, 1995, p. 84. Location number : Mitchell Library REF1/Q994.0099/1. Exhibited in Hearth & home : women's decorative arts & crafts 1800-1930. Glebe, NSW: Historic Houses Trust of NSW, 1988, cat. no. 51
  3. Alecto bungaroides. Dum. Var. Brown Snake of Colonists of N.S.W. called by the Natives round Sydney 'Biddigeral'. Drawn from a specimen found at Spring Cove Oct 26/37 [Poisonous]. Watercolour, 16.5 x 28 cm. Inscribed as above in pencil lower right and left; also inscribed upper right 'Proteroglypha'. On reverse: [Pencil drawing of sea-anemone]
  4. Six eyed spider: Sclerachne; Tessarops maritima, Rafinesque. 2 pencil and ink drawings, with ms descriptions beneath on 2 leaves contained within folded printed notice of general meeting of the Ornithological Society of London, 5 Jan. 1838, 18.5 x 23 cm. (outside meas.)
  5. and 6. [Sea-anemones]. 2 watercolours each approx. 7 x 8.5 cm
  7. [Moth]. Watercolour, 15.1 x 18.9 cm. on 'Turnbull's superfine London board' with blind-embossed stamp upper right
  8 a-b. [Flies and bees]. 2 watercolours on folded paper, 18.2 x 23.7 cm. Pencil inscriptions
  9. Seyllium [fish] ... from Amboina. B[oar]d S.S. "Merkara" Red Sea (near Djeddah) 3d of April, 1886. Pencil and ink 17.2 x 61.2 cm. Inscribed with details of colour and markings upper and lower right ;
  10 a-m. [Native animals; views in the Murray-Darling Rivers district; group portrait of Aborigines] / Gerard Krefft. 13 wood engravings 14.5 x 13 cm., or smaller laid down on paper backings. Probably related to drawings done on Wilhelm Blandowski's 1857 expedition to the Murray and Darling Rivers
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824243
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Krefft, Gerard, 1830-1881
  Macleay, Frances Leonora, 1793-1836
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  animals
  dragonflies
  fish
  houses
  insects
  moths
  sea-anemones
  snakes
  spiders
  
• Place
  Colonial Secretary's House (Bridge Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Krefft Blandowski
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1066696

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