• Title
  [Sketches of town views, landscapes, and natural history specimens by various artists, ca. 1864-1889] / album owned by David Scott Mitchell
• Call number
  PXC 286/vol. 2
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1864-1889
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Prints
• Reference code
  442496
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  20 drawings - 27.2 x 30.3 cm. (or smaller) - watercolour & pencil
  2 prints - 16.2 x 20.2 cm. (or smaller) - lithographs
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Brighton Beach Railway Station Boxing Day 1864 / S.T.G.
  2. Brighton Boxing Day / S.T.G.
  3. Melbourne Bowling Green Chapel Street Prahran May 2nd 1865 / S.T.G.
  4. Waiting for the Mail N.S.W. / S.T.G.
  5. Death of Sergeant Harris / S.T.G.
  6. The murder of Sergeant Harris by Ben Hall
  7. Section of Kitchen - Showing Fireplace - Burke's position at Breakfast &c. No.1
  8. After death wound - Abbot's final with Burke [unifinished pecil sketch on reverse]
  9. Qu. Spurs or no Spurs [two men fighting on a floor]
  10. [Shoeshining by street vendor in a doorway. Two Chinese me carry goods on rods in background]
  11. [Fish]
  12a. [Fish]
  13b. [Fish]
  12b. [Group of men - unfinished pencil sketch on verso of 12a]
  13a. [Stingray]
  14. [Dog holding card with inscription, "Many Happy Returns of the Day"]
  15. [Kingfisher]
  16. [Bird on branch]
  18. [Cassowary - hand-coloured lithograph] / T. ...
  17. [Beetle with dedication beneath] "W. Gooding of Ipswich to Mrs Scott March 1830"
  19. Cobbler's Bay Middle Harbour Mai 1889 / Edw. Perier
  20. Willow - Salop / B.B.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  These drawings were found in a loose scrapbook in August 1966 and filed at PXC 286 (vol.2)
  Most drawings are not signed or dated.
  Nos. 5-6. No mention is made of a Sergeant Harris in the list of police killed or wounded, 1862-1881 in "The history of bushranging in Australia ... Adelaide, 1891 (ML A 923.41/H). For notes on possible identification of this person, see PXn 546.
  Nos. 6, 19, and 20 are titled on the reverse.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1319129
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Five drawings are initialled, "S.T.G"
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Gill, Samuel Thomas, 1818-1880
  Perier, Edward
  
• Subject
  Cassowaries--Pictorial works.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  beetles
  bowling greens
  bushrangers
  dogs
  fish
  greetings cards
  homicides
  hotels & taverns
  interiors (buildings)
  leisure
  natural history
  railway stations
  robberies
  shoeshining
  shootings (crime)
  sports & recreations
  stingrays
  jetties & wharves
  
• Place
  Melbourne (Vic.)
  Middle Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE14292327

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