[Australian Fossil Remains, ca. 1868-1870] / Helena Forde

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SV*/Zoo/8
SV*/Zoo/10

fonds

ca. 1868-1870

Graphic Materials, Drawings

440252

Drawings - 25.4 x 35.4 cm. or smaller - pencil - ink drawings

Transferred in 1985 from Drawer 15.

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Australian fossil Remains [skull] / Helena Forde del and lith. [unfinished pencil and pen sketches on reverse]

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Small incisor P. worn of m ?. 2 Views [Teeth and parts of jaw bone. Drawings are numbered 1 to 14a]

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[Jaw bone with teeth] Memo / This head will do for the centr / of Miss Scott's plate; some of / the teeth & toe ...es to be arrange / around it. Found east of / tooth from socket of this / animal.-"

Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

The drawings are possibly for a book on Australian Fossils by Richard Owen.
Also see: "Australian Fossil Remains" with 17 plates by Harriet Scott and Helena Forde, and printed by Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1870, in Gerard Krefft - papers, ca. 1856-1884, 1891, 1894-1895 (A 264 Mitchell Library)
The material is dated from the period of the above publications.
No. 8 has pencil notes in Helena Forde's hand.
The artist of No.10 is possibly Harriet Scott as her sister Helena was married at the time the drawings were executed.

No. 6 is titled in black ink at upper left and signed "Helena Forde del and lith." at lower left.
Nos. 8 and 10 have notes in pencil and ink.