• Title
  File 1: Collection of sketches, mainly of national costumes from Peru, ca. 1831-1838 / by Syms Covington
• Call number
  PXA 290
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  ca. 1831-1838
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  442951
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  13 drawings - 23.7 x 18.8 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  Costume drawings and other sketches made on the voyage of the Beagle (including 9 watercolour and 3 ink and pencil drawings).
  
  1. Fashion of Lima / Peru / S.C. [in pencil beneath image]. "The Saya here is loose to show the face at within. / (a nice / whim)" [at right hand side of sheet]. "Lima [in ink] / Saya or gown inside out / The Females of Lima are thought very beautiful / 12" [in pencil on reverse]
  2. A la mode de Lima / S.C. [on front]. "Lima / Dragons blood for Gown / Dark shades on Gown ought to be [heavily ...?] & somewhat ... / 13"
  3. [Seated female on mat dressed in black] / "14" [stamped on reverse]
  4. [Female seated facing to the front] / S.C. [initialled in pencil and ink on front]. "Lima / The Gown rather light throughout / 15"
  5. Lima [female seated on box] / "Vide [i.e. see] description ... Mantilla Tame V fo. [i.e. folio] 21 / 16" [in pencil on reverse]
  6. Walking Dress of the Females of Lima. / (Peru). August - 1835 [on front]. "I was deceived by Candle Light in colour of ... Carmine / 17"
  7. A Portress of Lima (Peru) / 1835 / S.C. [on front]. "Lima / 18" [on reverse]
  8. A Malayan [in ink] / Syms - Convington Septr - 15th - 1836 - H.M.S. Beagle [in pencil at lower edge] "... of Calcutta / 19" [on reverse]
  9. [Female kneeling on mat] / S.C. [initialled on front]. "20" [in ink on reverse]
  10. The Esquimaux Kaiyack [i.e. kayak] / S.C. [on front]. "The Swiftest Canoe / in the World?- / 8" [on reverse]
  11. Esquimaux Kaiyack, or Canoe. [in ink] / ... mala ... [text in Spanish] / Agusta 10th - 1837" [in pencil] / S.C. [on front]. "9" [in ink on reverse]
  12. [Maori implements - 6 items] 1836 [on front]. "Spears - Clubs used by the / natives of New Zealand / (S.C. Decr. 1835)" [in pencil on reverse with the title repeated in ink beneath] "10" [in ink on reverse]
  13. John Adams / one of the Mutineers of H.M.S. / Bounty who lived many years / on Pitcarn [ie. Pitcairn] Island S.P. Owen [in ink written over text in pencil] / S.C. / From a drawing in Beechey's Voyage June 6th 1838 [on front]. "11" [on reverse]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Many of the drawings have stamped on the reverse, ""Syms-Convington Relics"" and bear the stamp of the Linnean Society of New South Wales with a number.
  As the inscriptions are in pencil, many have faded and are difficult to read.
  The text along lower edge of reverse of No.6 is difficult to read.
  No.6 is torn at centre of right-hand side.
  No.13 refers to Beechey, F.W., ""Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait"", London: Colwin and Bentley (M.L. ref. 980/B p.69)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 861738
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most drawings are titled in pencil below image. Some have further descriptions on reverse.
  Some drawings are titled in ink.
  Many are initialled in pencil and ink, ""S.C.""
  Six drawings are dated.
• Name
  Adams, John
  Beagle (Ship)
  
• Topic
  canoes
  clothing
  Maori customs
  national dress
  portraits
  spears
  voyages & travels
  
• Place
  New Zealand
  
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