• Title
  Scott family - drawings mainly by Mary Anne Scott and H. Scott, ca. 1863-1874
• Call number
  DG*D 44 (v.3)
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1863-1865, 1869, 1874
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  440161
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  21 drawings (12 watercolours, 6 pencil, 3 ink) - 22.2 x 23 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  1. [Morning Glory] May 12th / 1863 / Newcastle / M.A. Scott
  2a. [Three children and pond] Chap 32 - Vol 2 - / M.A.S. 186? [1864?]
  2b. [Horses, unfinished sketch]
  3a. Cross leaved heath / Erica Tetralix / M. Scott / 1875 [1871?]
  3b. Ragged Robbin
  4. [Rose] / Mary A. Scott
  5. Rose Capucine / M A Scott / May 22
  6. Sir Colin Campbell [fushsia] / H.S. 1865
  7. [Fushia] Ash Island / Helena Scott [crossed out in black ink]
  8. Tadorna tadornoides / H. Scott
  9. Tadorna Variegata / H. Scott
  10. [White pigmy goose] / H. Scott
  11. Thunbergia [Inscribed on reverse in pencil] "Dear Millie [i.e. Mary Anne] / from Gussie [i.e. Augusta Maria] / March 27th 1869 / Newcastle"
  12. [Hon]eysuckle ...
  13. H*S / Native cucumber [wreath design]
  14. Eucharis (from memory) / a Narcissus sort of flower / & as sweet - May 3rd - / natural size of flower / & about a crown piece [with colour notes]
  15. The flower - Nigella / or Fennel flower or / Love in the mist / some of the books name it "or Devil-in-a-book"! / too unkind n'est-ce-pas? [with two black spots of watercolour on the reverse]
  16. [Scorpion] Size of / two scorpions, / killed at Mallarun / while I was there on Monday night [below image]. This is a sing of the back scorpion .... [at top of image].
  17a. [Bouquet of flowers that consist of morning glory, tulip, peony, and cyclamen]]
  17b. [Unfinished pencil sketches] / H.S.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  It is difficult to ascertain whether the drawings signed "H. Scott" are by Harriet or Helena Scott.
  The drawings are looseleaf and were hinged onto pages at an unknown date.
  Nos. 1-2, 4-10, 12-13, and 15 have a circular shaped green [auction?] sticker on the reverse with the number "1288" in blue ink. Nos. 11 and 17 have a similar sticker with the number "1017".
  Nos. 6, 8-10 have "M & M.S. Shaw" in pencil on the reverse.
  Nos. 14 and 15 were originally attached by a pin that has been removed.
  No. 16 is drawn on paper ruled with a grid pattern. It was originally on the reverse of Rununculus asiaticus ... (DG *D44 Vol.1 No.7).
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Some drawings are signed, "Mary A. Scott" or "M. A. Scott"
  One drawing is initialled, "M.A.S."
  One drawing is signed, "M. Scott"
  One drawing is signed, "Helena Scott"
  Three drawings are signed, "H. Scott"
  Two drawings are initialled, "H.S."
  Some drawings are dated.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Scott, Harriet, 1830-1907
  Forde, Helena, 1832-1910
  Scott, Mary Anne
  
• Topic
  birds
  botanical illustrations
  flowers
  scorpions
  
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