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Title
Australian Sketches [mainly scenes of Tasmania and New South Wales], ca. 1865-1875
Call number
PXA 550
Level of description
fonds
Date

ca. 1865-1875
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
Reference code
442306
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
Albums - 28.7 x 24.6 x 5 cm. - 1 album (containing 45 pen - ink - watercolour drawings, 24 albumen photoprints, & 1 engraving)
Scope and Content
1. Hagley n. Launceston Tasmania
2. The Cottage / George Town / The road is ... but smooth
3a. Mountford n. Launceston
3b. The Cottage-Launceston
4a. Near Clynevale
4b. Clynevale / Tasmania
5a. Capt. Home's Quamby
5b. Rhodes / near Launceston
6. Brown's River / near Hobart Town
7. Fern Tree Valley / Hobart Town
8a. From Government House
8b. Government House / Hobart Town
9a. Mona Vale Mr Kermode's [near Ross, Tasmania]
9b. Mona Vale
9c. Sir Rich? Dry's / Hobart Town
9d. nr. Brown's River Hobart Town
10a. View of the harbour. Hobart Town From Bishop's Court [beneath image]. View from Verandah of / Bishop's Court [on reverse]
10b. Mount Wellington From back of Davis' Str. / Hobart Town [beneath image]. From Frank's bedroom / window. The mountain / is Mount Wellington. / The spire our church All Saints / You will see that it is a sideways / view over the backs of houses in / a road parallel with one at the / front of this house [inscribed on reverse].
11. St. Pauls Cathedral Melb. / The Chancel 512
12a. St. Paul's Cathedral from the Chancel 513
12b. The Reledos [?] S. Pauls Cathedral / Melbourne
13a. Hobart Town From Davis St.r
13b. Sandridge / Mr Robert Archer's Tasmania
13c. Gone!!! [six females at a window waving goodbye to ships]
14a. Green Oaks Sydney [i.e. Greenoaks, residence of Thomas Mort]
14b. Sailors on Hobart Town. 1870.
15a. Picnic nr [i.e. near] Hobart Town
15b. H. Town discovery of a / Fossil Man [comment on women suffragettes]
16a. "The Shepherdess of the Period"
16b. No.II "Cause, Simple"
16c. No.I "Effect, Singular"
16d. Costume du bal (Tasmania)
16e. High Life below Stairs. / And 'how are you goin' to the Ball look." / Well Mrs Raggles I've 'ardly made up my mind / Mary Ann Toinette's a pretty dress so's Madarn de Pump a door / but blest yer 'eart I'aven't time scarcely to make up a dress."
17. The Fancy Ball / Brown isn't going to those swindling / tailors, not he, no, have his Fancy Dress / made at home by his sisters. The Results / Sister "I'm afraid there's something wrong / about the coat, but the other things are beautiful"
18. Fancy Ball Melbourne
19. After the Fancy Ball [at markets]
20a. A Drive into the Bush
20b. A Break down
20c. An Australian Shanty [with male on verandah]
21a. Rushcutter's / Bay / - Sydney
21b. Back of Mrs. M's Cottage
21c. Mr Slade's Sydney [ca. 1865. A game of croquet is being played on a lawn in front of a large house. In the background a man is watering the garden]
22a. Government House / Sydney
22b. Sydney Harbour [Mort's Dock, Balmain]
23a. Back View from Castlereagh St Sydney
23b. The University of Sydney
24a. Front view - Volunteer Club Sydney
24b. The Exchange Sydney
25. [blank]
26. St Mark's [Darling Point] Sydney
27a. Exhibition building Sydney
27b. North Head from Vaucluse. / Sands & Kenny, Sydney & Melbourne.
27c. The Domain [St Thomas' Church, North Sydney, 1866] Sydney
28a. Fern Hill [Mulgoa] Mr E. [i.e. Edward] Cox's'
28b. Back View [of Edward Cox's house]
28c-d. The Bush N.S.W. [titled beneath No.28d]
29a. Goulburn / N.S.W.
29b. Goulburn
29c. House near Sydney [Holmewood, Newtown. Group playing croquet in foreground]
30a. Manley [i.e. Manly] Beach n: Sydney
30b. Barncleuth [Barnsleuth?] Sydney Mr. Moore's [croquet being played on the lawn in front of large house]
31a. Manly Beach / n: Sydney
31b. [Evening scene comprising row boat with four people]
32a-b. Manly Beach
33a. [Thomas Hotel] Goulburn
33b. A very rude Family
34a. Bliss in hot weather
34b. Queen Sarah's Palace. Mulgoa
35. Near Sydney [view of bush with property in background]
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Microfilm - CY 875

Items have been numbered according to album page on which they appear.
Many album pages have more than one item per sheet and some have items on the reverse.
Some items have handwritten text on the reverse that cannot be read as they are glued to the album page.
Nos. 10a-b have handwritten titles on reverse.
Nos. 11, 12a, and 27b have printed titles on image.
No.12a-b have hand written title on reverse.
No.24b is a similar view to [Sydney Exchange, 1864-1866] / R.B.R. Photo (SPF/317).
No.27c has been identified by comparison with St Thomas' Church, North Sydney, N.S.W., 1866 (SPF/706).
No.29c has been identified as Holmewood in Newtown after comparison with PX*D 307-6, f.7.
Alfred Lee bookplate inside front cover.
Possibly bequeathed by David Scott Mitchell.
Digital order no:Album ID : 1045820
Signatures / Inscriptions

Album title embossed in gold letters on spine.
Most bear handwritten titles on album page beneath image. Some items are titled on the work.
Only one item is dated.
Creator/Author/Artist
Sands & Kenny
Subject
David Scott Mitchell Collection.
Topic
balls & dances
croquet
fancy-dress balls
gardens
harbours
houses
leisure
manners & customs
markets
official residences
rivers
satire
streetscapes
city & town streets
wagons
Place
Browns River (Tas.)
Castlereagh Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Fern Hill (property)
Garden Palace (Domain, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Georgetown (Tas.)
Goulburn (N.S.W.)
Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Greenoaks (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
Hagley (Tas.)
Hobart (Tas.)
Launceston (Tas.)
Manly (N.S.W.)
Mona Vale (Ross, Tas.)
Mulgoa (N.S.W.)
Rhodes (Longford, Tas.)
St. Mark's Church (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
St. Paul's Cathedral (Melbourne, Vic.)
St. Thomas' Anglican Church (North Sydney, N.S.W.)
Stock Exchange (Bridge & Gresham Streets, Sydney, N.S.W.)
University of Sydney (N.S.W.)
Wellington, Mount (Tas.)
Exhibited in

Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens
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