• Title
  Album of watercolour sketches [of New South Wales], ca. 1871-1891 / by J.B. Henderson
• Creator
  J. B. (John Black) Henderson, 1827-1918
• Call number
  PXA 3185
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1871, 1875, 1877, 1879-1884, 1886, 1891
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  430462
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Albums - 37.5 x 28.5 cm - 1 album (50 watercolour drawings)
  
• Scope and Content
  1. On the Minn Murray River Illawarra District about 1875
  2. Top Garden - New Norfolk Tas. 1891
  3. Singleton's Mill - Hawkesbury River 1879 / J.B.H.
  4. Windsor 1883
  5. Hawkesbury River '79 [drawing noted missing Apr. 1967]
  6. MacDonald River 1879
  7. Clifton (Miner's Hut) 1882
  8. National Park 1884
  9. Rose Bay 1883
  10. Miners Cottage Clifton 1879
  11. Toronto Lake Macquarie 1880
  12. Oyster Beds, Hawkesbury, 1877
  13. Wisemans Ferry Hawkesbury River 1879
  14. Derwent River New Norfolk 1891 [missing at acquisition]
  15. Wisemans Ferry 1879
  16. Middle Harbour 1877
  17. Hawkesbury River 1879
  18. [Richmond 1879]
  19a. [River scene]
  19b. St Aubans [Albans] McDonald [MacDonald] River 1879
  20. Hawkesbury River 1882
  21. McDonald [MacDonald] River 1881
  22. McDonald [MacDonald] River 1881
  23. Milkmaid's Flat Hawkesbury River 1881
  24. Rose Bay about 1879
  25. Sherbroke near Bulli 1885
  26. Hawkesbury & McDonald [MacDonald] River 1879
  27. Hawkesbury River 1879
  28. Old Church Wisemans Ferry 1879
  29. Hawkesbury River [1880] / J.B.H.
  30. Mr Nagles Cottage Wiseman's Ferry 1879
  31. Queens Cliff Victoria 1862 [missing at acquisition]
  32. Berowra Ck [1882] / J.B.H.
  33. Cliffs at Wisemans Ferry Gosford side / J.B.H. 1886
  34. [Paddock with buildings in the background]
  35. McDonald [MacDonald] River 1881
  36a. Old Balmain Peacock Point 1877
  36b. Old Balmain Peacock Point 1877
  37. Punt east Gosford [1879] / J.B.H.
  38. [Bush scene]
  39. Coogee 1879
  40. [missing]
  41. Hawkesbury River 1879
  42a. [Couple on pathway]
  42b. [Rural scene with cow in foreground]
  43. Wisemans Ferry from the teleg. [i.e. telegraph] boxes [1881]
  44. Hawkesbury River 1879
  45. Berowra Creek 1881
  46. Gulli [or Bulli] 1881
  47. Clifton 1879
  48. Oyster Beds Hawkesbury River 1879
  49. Sherbrook [i.e. Sherbrooke] 1883 near Bulli
  50. Old iron works Bowral 1881
  51. Winderamere [Windermere] Hunter [1884]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales<br>
• General note
  
  Several types of handwriting are apparent in this album. One is visible on the drawings themselves, and others appear as captions beneath each image.
  Nos. 19, 34, 38, 40a-b are not titled.
  Four drawings are missing.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1255987
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  On reverse of front cover, ""Sketches by J.B. Henderson Book No.7"".
  Handwritten on spine of album, ""Watercolour Sketches by Henderson"".
  The drawings are stamped in blue ink, ""J.B. Henderson"".
  Some drawings are initialled, ""J.B.H.""
  Eight drawings are titled on the work.
  Drawings are titled on album page below image in a different hand.
• Topic
  bush
  country scenes
  landscapes (artwork)
  oyster-farms
  rivers
  
• Place
  Bulli (N.S.W.)
  Clifton (N.S.W.)
  Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.)
  Middle Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Murray River Region (N.S.W.-S. Aust.)
  Rose Bay (N.S.W.)
  Windsor (N.S.W.)
  Wisemans Ferry (N.S.W.)
  Macdonald River (Hawkesbury District, N.S.W.)
  

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