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Title
Sketches in New South Wales in the olden time 1842-1859 by John Rae, M.A. / album of watercolour panoramas and photographs of watercolour sketches
Creator
John Rae, 1813-1900
Call number
DL PXX 74
Level of description
fonds
Date

1842 - 1859, 1883
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs, Watercolours, Prints
Reference code
403201
Physical Description
1 album of 19 pages (1 page letterpress, 1 colour lithograph, 26 albumen photoprints, 2 panoramic photoprints each comprising four albumen prints, 4 panoramic watercolour drawings each comprising a number of sheets) - 40.5 x 77.5 cm.
Scope and Content
1. Letterpress : The New South Wales Commission for the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition. Mr Rae's sketches of Colonial Scenes in the Olden Time. Sydney. Charles Potter, Government Printer. 1888
2. Ceremony of turning the First Turf of the First Railway in Australia. By the Hon. Mrs Keith Stewart Daughter of His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, Governor-General, at Sydney, on 3rd July, 1850. From an Original Sketch by John Rae, Esqre, Commissioner for Railways, Sydney. Supplement to the Sydney Mail Oct 1877 - colour lithograph
3. [Albumen photoprint of the original watercolour of the Turning of the First Turf of the First Railway in Australia] - original watercolour is in Mitchell Library at ML 244
4a. Government House from Macquarie Street - albumen photoprint of ca. 1845 watercolour
4b. [Entrance to the Domain, Macquarie, with Sir Richard Bourke Statue] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
5a. [Supreme Court and St James Church from Elizabeth Street] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
5b. [Hyde Park St James Parsonage The Mint and Immigration (Hyde Park) Barracks] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
5c. [Hyde Park, St Mary's Cathedral and Belfrey + Wooloomooloo Windmills (Barkers)] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
5d. [Hyde Park, Windmills, Wooloomooloo Sir E. Deas Thomson's House and Museum] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
5e. [Hyde Park, Darlinghurst Gaol, Sydney Grammar School, Burdekin and Lyon Terraces] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
5f. [Continuation of last view to junction of Elizabeth and Liverpool Streets and water supply] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
5a - f form a panorama of Hyde Park from Elizabeth Street
6a. [Macquarie Street through Hyde Park now closed] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
6b. [Elizabeth Street and Hyde Park from Lyons Terrace] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
7a. [Old South Head Road now Oxford Street] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
7b. [Continuation of last line of William Street Woolloomooloo Bay] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
7c. [Continuation of last: Sir E. Deas Thomson's house and windmills] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
7a-c form a panorama from what is now Oxford Street
8a. [The Military Barracks George Street, now Wynyard Square] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
8b. [View of the Markets and Police Office on York Street] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
9a. [York Street, George Street Markets, Cathedral (St Andrews) and Old Corporation Offices - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
9b. [York Street looking north, corner of Market Street] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
10a. [George Street from corner of King Street] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
10b. [George Street looking north, Old Burial Ground, Police Office, Markets etc] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
11a. [George Street looking south from Park Street] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
11b. [Macquarie Street South and stables of Lyons Terrace] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
12a. [Millers Point from Flagstaff Hill] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
12b. [Double Bay Point Piper Shark Island Sir T. Mitchell's house in foreground] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
13a. [Potts Point Alexander Macleay's house Elizabeth Bay] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
13b. [Port Jackson from Darling Point looking north] - albumen photoprint of a ca. 1845 watercolour
14. [Large cottage, built in stages, circular drive and front yard, n.d.] - watercolour drawing on three sheets, 25.4 x 69.4 cm
15. [Panoramic photograph of Newcastle, 1878-1882, taken from Barker Street, possibly from The Obelisk] - 4 albumen photoprints
16. Illawarah [Illawarra] Scenery from Mr Jenkins cottage - ca. 1850, panoramic watercolour drawing comprising 6 sheets, 22.2 x 191.5 cm
17. [Panoramic photoprint of Wollongong, 1883] - 4 albumen photoprints, 22.8 x 102.4 cm
18. [Turning of the First Turf of the First Railway, 3 July 1850] - watercolour drawing on two sheets, 30.2 x 72.5 cm
19. Outline of mountains near Welaregang sketched at the request of Sir John Hay in 1857 - panoramic watercolour drawing comprising 8 sheets, 18.5 x 262 cm
Access Conditions

Access via appointment
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

The view of Welaregang, or another version held in the Dixson Galleries (DG A8) appears to have been exhibited at the Calcutta International Exhibition of 1883. It is probable that the Mitchell Library's watercolour of "The Turning of the First Turf for the First Railway" (ML 244), and the Dixson Galleries panoramic drawings of Newcastle (DG A10) and Wollongong (DG A7) were also exhibited at this exhibition - see letterpress on page 1 of this volume.
According to the letterpress Rae made the outlines for these drawings with a "sketching camera" he had constructed
Panoramic photographs dated through letterpress on page 1
ca.1845 views of Sydney titled from another copy of the images at DL PX 41
No. 15 identified by A.Hardy (late 2005).
No.14 is probably not Government House, Newcastle (previously thought to be Govt. House based on pencil note below the panorama at no.15.) No.15 dated from progress on the walls of Fort Scratchly -- Information supplied by K.Parsons (Mar 2006)
Digital order no:Album ID : 823604
Signatures / Inscriptions

Titled on cover of album
Exhibited in

Early Newcastle Views
Open Rosetta viewer
IE1108651